Preferences Dialog - Editor Selection Tab; Customizing The Menus And Toolbars; Adding Or Removing Command Shortcuts From The Toolbars/Menus; Customize Dialog - AMX MIO-R4 Operation/Reference Manual

Program Preferences

Preferences Dialog - Editor Selection tab

Select Edit > Preferences to open the Preferences dialog where you can set general program preferences
for TPDesign4. The options in the Editor Selection tab allow you to associate external programs of your
choice with image and sound files, to accommodate in-place editing of the images and sounds used in
your Project.
Once you have associated an external program to image and/or sound editor, you can edit image and files
by selecting the file in either the Images or Sounds tab of the Resource Manager and clicking the Edit
button.
The items in the Editor Selection tab include:
Editors
• Editor Type menu:
• Add Editor button:
• Remove Editor button: With an editor selected (in the Editors list), click this button to remove it from the list,
• Editors table:

Customizing the Menus and Toolbars

Adding or Removing Command Shortcuts from the Toolbars/Menus

Use the options in the Command tab of the Customize dialog to customize the contents of the TPDesign4
toolbars and menus.

Customize dialog

Select View > Customize to open the Customize dialog. This dialog includes options that allow you to
customize the TPDesign4 GUI to best suit your preferences. The options in this dialog are organized into
the following tabs:

Customize dialog - Commands tab

Use the options in the Command tab of the Customize dialog to customize the contents of the TPDesign4
toolbars.
The options in this tab include:
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Click the down arrow to select either Image Editors or Sound Editors from the drop-
down list.
Click to add either an image or a sound editing program to the Editors list (depend-
ing on the Editor Type selected).
and disassociate it from image or sound files in TPD4.
Lists all external image or sound editing programs (depending on the Editor Type
selected) that have been added, by filename (*.EXE and file path. The Default col-
umn indicates which of the programs is currently set as the default editor.
Commands: Contains options for customizing the TPDesign4 menu bar and menus.
Toolbars: Contains options for customizing the TPDesign4 toolbars.
Tools: Contains options that allow you to add/remove external program shortcuts to the Tools
menu.
Keyboard: Contains options for customizing the TPDesign4 keyboard accelerators (hotkeys).
Menu: Contains options for customizing the TPDesign4 menus and context menus.
Options: Contains additional options for customizing the TPDesign4 toolbars.
• Categories: This is a list of all command categories (scroll down to view the entire list). Note
that these categories match the main menu items (File, Edit, Panel, Page, Button,
States, Layout, View, Window, and Help), with a few exceptions: The New Menu
option allows you to create a new toolbar, and All Commands lists all commands
in all categories.
TPDesign4 Touch Panel Design Software (v2.10 or higher)