User`s guide

6 Lay Out a GUIDE GUI
• “Select Components” on page 6-80
• “Copy, Cut, and Clear Components” on page 6-81
• “Paste and Duplicate Components” on page 6-81
• “Front-to-Back P ositioning” on page 6-82
Other topics that may be of interest are
• “Locate and Move Components” on page 6-83
• “Resize Components” on page 6-86
• “Align Components” on page 6-89
• “Set Tab Order” on page 6-98
Select Components
You can select components in the layout area in the follow ing ways:
• Click a single component to select it.
• Press Ctrl+A to select all child objects o f the figure. This does not select
components that are child objects of panels or button groups.
• Click and drag the cursor to create a rectangle that encloses the components
you want to select. If the rectangle en closes a panel or button group, only
the panel or button group is selected, not its children. If the rectangle
encloses part of a panel or button group, only the components within the
rectangle that are child objects of the panel or button group are selected.
• Select mu ltiple comp one nts using the Shift and Ctrl keys.
In some cases, a com ponent may lie outside i ts parent’s boundary. Such a
component is not visible in the Layout Editor but can be selected by dragging
a rectangle that encloses it or by selecting it in the Object Browser. Such a
componen t is visible in the active GUI.
See “View the Object Hierarchy” on page 6-136 for information about the
Object Browser.
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