The TPDesign4 Work Area
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TPDesign4 (v3.2 or higher)
Design View Window context menu (Cont.)
Delete Click to delete the selected object(s).
Find Click to open the Find dialog. Use the options in this dialog to search for a set of prop-
erties and values in the current Page or across the entire Panel.
See the Searching For Properties section on page 236 for details.
Find and Replace Click to open the Find & Replace dialog. The options in this dialog allow property values
to be replaced in Buttons or Pages that match the search criteria.
See the Searching and Replacing Properties section on page 237 for details.
Select All This option selects all buttons on the active Page.
Apply To All This option allows you to set button properties to edit multiple buttons simultaneously.
Click once to toggle it on, click it again to turn it off (default = off).
The icon shown in the Edit menu indicates whether this option is active
(depressed = active).
This setting affects the Edit Previous and Edit Next buttons (see below).
See the Using the Apply To All Option section on page 235 for details.
Edit Previous/Next The Edit Previous and Edit Next options are activated only when more than one button
is selected on a page, and the Apply To All button is off (not depressed).
These buttons allow you to quickly edit the selected buttons individually. Hold down the
Shift key and click to select multiple buttons.
Note: When you have multiple buttons selected, only one of them has the edit focus at
any given time. Use the Edit Previous and Edit Next options to cycle through the
selected buttons to view each button's properties in the Properties window. The button
represented in the Properties window is the one with edit focus. All
modifications are always done on the button with the edit focus.
Display Click to access the Display sub-menu, containing options that allow you to select which
state of a selected button to display in the Design View:
• Reset Display- This option resets the Display View to show only the first state on all
buttons (the default view).
• Display Previous State - This option displays the previous state of the selected button.
The state displayed depends on the state currently displayed. This option is disabled
if the first state of the button is being displayed.
• Display Next State - This option displays the next state of the selected button. The
state displayed depends on the state currently displayed. This option is disabled if the
last state of the button is being displayed.
• Choose Display State - This option opens the Choose Display State dialog, where you
can select which state to display from a list of available states for a selected button.
Layout Click to access the Layout sub-menu, which is identical to the Layout menu (see
page 7).
Hide Popup Page Hides the popup page selected in the Pages tab of the Workspace Navigator.
Hide All Popup
Pages
Select to hide all popup pages in the Design View.
Show External
Controls
Click to display external controls (pushbuttons) in the Design View.
Copy Image To
Clipboard
Click to copy an image snapshot of the current Design View to the clipboard.
This will always include any shown popup pages and will reflect the current display
state of buttons.
Create Template
Preview Image
Click to open the Create Template Preview Image dialog. Use the options in this dialog
to create the preview image that is required by G4 PanelBuilder.
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