Cutting, Copying And Pasting; Copying States To The Clipboard; Pasting States From The Clipboard - AMX TPDESIGN4 V2.5 Instruction Manual

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Neither String or Command Outputs support any type of drag and drop operations.
While you can (in-place) edit the Channel, Address and Level codes via these folders,
you cannot edit String or Command Outputs the same way. These can only be edited
via the General tab of the Properties Control window.
Setting the Address, Channel or Level port to the setup port provides a list of predefined actions.
Some of the actions may be hardware dependent, in which case do nothing.

Cutting, Copying and Pasting

There are several items that can be cut, copied or pasted in TPDesign4 and your ability to utilize
these features effectively and with an absolute minimum of frustration will greatly increase your
productivity.
The Copy and Paste functions in TPDesign4 always work on the element (including buttons,
bitmaps, even individual button properties displayed in the Properties Control window) which has
the current Edit Focus. This means the last thing selected, which is not always necessarily a button
displayed in the Design View windows, has the edit focus. For example, if you have selected an
item in the Properties Control window (let's say you've selected "Channel Port", and you perform a
"Copy", then you will have copied only the Channel Port entry in the Properties Control window,
and not the associated button (even though it is selected in the Design View window). You can then
paste the Channel Port number anywhere else in the Properties Control window (where the copied
data is considered to be a valid entry). If for example you had copied the value "410" from the Left
(position) field in the Properties Control window, you are not allowed to paste it to the Address Port
field, since it is not a valid Address Port number (these errors are indicated by an error dialog).

Copying States to the Clipboard

Copying a state or states from a page, popup page or button is possible by selecting the desired
states in the State Manager then either clicking Edit > Copy from the main menu or clicking on the
Copy button from the main toolbar. You may also right click and select copy from the context
menu.

Pasting States from the Clipboard

You may paste (by either clicking Edit > Paste from the main menu or by clicking the Paste button
from the main toolbar) a previously copied state or states onto any corresponding state or states in
the State Manager, whether it be for a page, a popup page, a different button or the same button.
Pasting a state or states on the panel name in the Panel Navigator (which is for pages or popup
pages only), on the folder named Pages (which is for pages only), on the folder named Popup Pages
(which is for popup pages only) or on a button in the design view is not allowed.
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Selecting an item in the tree and then left clicking again will provide an in-place edit of
the code value.
A double-click action on the item will open the associated page (or popup page) and
place the edit focus on that item.
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