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7.1.1 Changing Screen Appearance
The screen appearance can be changed to make project editing easier. This includes what toolbars are displayed, changing
grid constraint properties and magnification. These changes affect the screen but do not change a window’s properties.
7.1.1.1 View Menu
The View menu is used to Hide or show Toolbars, Status bar and Treebar. The functionality of the Treebar is
discussed further in the Editing Placed Objects section. Toolbars can be dragged to other sides of the editing window
or dragged away from the edge to be shown as floating. Check a toolbar’s name to open it. Uncheck a toolbar’s name
to close it.
The
Size
command is used to change the edited window’s magnification to 100 or 200%. Magnification makes it
easier to align objects manually and to make drawing objects intersect at appropriate coordinates.
7.1.1.2 Screen Settings
Use the
Option|Grid/Snap
menu to make object alignment and drawing easy.
X, Y
Select or enter the pixels from one grid point
to the next in the X(Horizontal) or Y(Vertical)
direction.
Display
Checkbox: Enables/Disables grid
visibility.
Snap
Checkbox: Enables/Disables the snapping
of objects to the grid.
Fix objects
checkbox: Enables/Disables the
anchoring of objects once they are placed. This
prevents inadvertent movement of objects when
selected by mouse click or rearrangement.
Use the
Option|Window Property
dialog to set the Grid color, turn the object ID display on or off and sets project save and
compile automation features.
Grid color:
Select the color of the grid.
Note:
If the grid color is the same as
the window color, it becomes invisible.
Display Object ID
Checkbox:
Enables/Disables the object ID number
from being displayed in the upper left
corner of an object.
Enable the Object ID for easy reference
to objects listed in the Treebar.
Disable the Object ID to view how
objects appear when displayed on the
unit’s screen.
Note:
Object ID’s may obscure the
locations of object labels.
Without Object ID
With Object ID
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