Specifications

Intelligent Building Series C-Touch Programming Reference

7.5 Manipulating Components

Having selected a component and the associated properties, each component

can be manipulated and grouped with other components visually. In addition,

components can be copied and deleted. The following sections deal with these

operations.

7.5.1 Selection

Before a Component can be manipulated, it must be selected by clicking

on it with the left mouse button. When selected the component is

highlighted with black dots at the corners and sides (shown below.)

Clicking outside the component de-

selects it. If several components are to be manipulated at once, the first

component is selected by clicking on it. Then the shift key is held down

while subsequent components are selected. The subsequently selected

components have gray dots rather than black ones. The component with

the black dots is known as the primary selection, the others are secondary

selections. They are treated slightly differently for some actions.

All of the components on a page can also be selected by using the Select

All speed button or selecting E

dit | Select | Select All.

Multiple components can be de-selected by selecting

dit | Select | Deselect All or by clicking somewhere outside of all of the

selected components.

7.5.2 Deleting

A selected component may be deleted using the delete key on a standard

101 key keyboard, and typing Control-X or by choosing E

dit | Delete.

Deleting a component is not the same as cutting a component. In the latter

place, a copy of the component is stored on the clipboard and can be

pasted into another page.

7.5.3 Copying

A component may be copied by selecting the component and typing

Control-C, choosing E

dit | Copy or clicking the toolbar button for copying

(shown below.)

This places a copy of the component on the clipboard for pasting. The

component pasted by typing Control-V, choosing E

dit | Paste or clicking

the paste toolbar button (shown below.)

Finally the component is positioned as desired on the page.