Resource Manager Dialog - Sounds Tab - AMX MIO-R4 Operation/Reference Manual

Resource Manager dialog - Sounds tab

The Sounds tab of the Resource Manager dialog provides a convenient way to import and preview all
sound files to be used in your project (TPDesign4 supports .WAV and .MP3 files). Use this tab as a
"library" of every sound file that will be used in your project (for pages, popup pages, buttons and icons).
It is important to import all of your sound files to this tab first, before they are applied in the project, so
that you can maintain an organized profile of all sound files in the project, regardless of their context (i.e.
button state, page flip, etc.)
The Resource Manager contains its own toolbar (above the tabs). Depending on what you are doing with
the listed Image, Dynamic Image or Sound files, one or more of the following options will be available:
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• Duplicate Use this option to duplicate a selected file to another slot. First select the file that you
want to duplicate, then select the slot that you want to target for the duplicated file,
and click Duplicate. The selected file is duplicated in the targeted slot.
• Swap Use this option to swap two file / slot assignments. Ctrl + click to select two files, and
click Swap. The two file / slot assignments are swapped.
• Assign This command assigns the selected Image or Sound file(s) to slot(s).
• Cancel If have selected one or more images, and clicked Assign to Slot (in the Images tab),
you can click Cancel to cancel the process before you set the slot assignment.
• Cut/Copy/Paste: Use these controls primarily to move images files to and from the Slots
tab. They work in the typical way, and support selected multiple files.
Note that if you copy or cut multiple files to clipboard memory, you must
select at least the same number of slots (in the Slots tab) in order to
paste all of the files. If you only select one slot, when you paste the mul-
tiple images, you'll only see the first one that you selected.
Note: You can also cut/copy/paste within any of the tabs.
• Delete: Select one or more files and click Delete to delete them from the collec-
tion. The files are not deleted from the hard drive, just from this project.
• Rename: Select an image file and click Rename to open the Rename dialog, con-
taining two fields: Old Name (read-only, displays the current file name),
and New Name (enter the new file name in this field). Click OK to
rename the file.
• Undo/Redo: All actions in the Resource Manager can be undone and/or redone.
• Import: Click to invoke the Open dialog. Use this dialog to locate and select
image and sound files to import into this tab.
Note: When images of any (supported) file type except PNG are
imported into a project, the files are automatically converted to JPGs.
For this reason, if you import (or paste) a file that has the same name as
a previously imported file (even if it has a different extension),
TPDesign4 automatically adds the "copy of" prefix to the file. PNGs are
not converted because they are already sufficiently compressed.
• New: This option is available only on the Dynamic Images tab (and replaces
the Import button that is on the other tabs). Click to open the Create
Dynamic Image dialog, which allows you to add dynamic images to your
project.
• Export: Use this option to export one or more files to a specified directory. Use
the Choose Directory dialog to pick the target directory.
• List Style: Click the down-arrow to open a drop-down list of the available display
options for this tab:
Small Icons - lists the files in columns, with small file icons.
List - lists the files in a single column, with small file icons.
Details - lists the files with file size and image dimension descriptions.
Thumbnails - displays a thumbnail image of each file.
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