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Working With Project (*.TP4) Files

TPDesign4 (v3.2 or higher)

Edit Focus

The page, popup page, or button(s) that are the target for change actions are said to have the Edit Focus.

For pages and popup pages, edit focus is indicated in the Workspace Navigator (Pages tab) by a small arrow at

the lower-left corner of the icon for the selected page or popup page. FIG. 40 shows that "Page 1" in the

"TPD4" project has the edit focus:

For buttons, edit focus is indicated in the Design View window with small red squares (with yellow outlines)

on the edges of the selected button (FIG. 41):

The Cut, Copy and Paste functions in TPD4 always work on the element which has the current edit focus. This

means the last thing selected (not necessarily a button displayed in the Design View windows) has the edit

focus. For example, if you have selected an item in the Properties window (let's say you've selected "Channel

Port", and you perform a "Copy", then you will have copied only the Channel Port entry in the Properties

window, and not the associated button (even though it is selected in the Design View window). You can then

paste the Channel Port number anywhere else in the Properties window (where the copied data is considered to

be a valid entry).

If for example you had copied the value "410" from the Left (position) field in the Properties window, you are

not allowed to paste it to the Address Port field, since it is not a valid Address Port number - these errors are

indicated by an error dialog.

Drag and Drop Support

Project Files: Drag and drop TPDesign4 project files (*.TP4) from a Windows Explorer window

onto the TPDesign4 workspace to open the project.

Popup Pages: Popup Pages can be dragged from the Pages tab and dropped on a Design View as an

alternate method of displaying the Popup Page on the full sized Page.

Page Flips: TPDesign4 supports a shortcut for adding page flips: Simply select the target page or

popup page for the flip in the Workspace window (Pages tab), drag it into a Design View window

and drop it onto a button to create a flip to that page or popup page.

States: Copies of states can be added within the same button via drag-and-drop. See the Adding

States via Drag-and-Drop section on page 295 for details.

FIG. 40 Edit Focus (Workspace Navigator (Pages tab)

FIG. 41 Edit Focus (Workspace Navigator (Design View window)

You can also drag and drop TPDesign3 (*.TPD) project files into the workspace, to

open the file via the TPD Conversion Wizard.

Dragging a Popup Page onto another Popup Page is not supported.

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