Cutting Objects; Replacing States On A Page, Popup Page Or Button; Replacing States From The Clipboard; Replacing States Through Drag-And-Drop - AMX TPDESIGN4 V2.5 Instruction Manual

Cutting Objects

Cutting an object or objects is identical in nature to copying, with the exception that the selected
object or objects will be removed. You may cut by selecting Edit > Cut from the main menu, using
the Ctrl + X hotkey, or by clicking the Cut toolbar button.

Replacing States On a Page, Popup Page or Button

Replacing is a powerful way to populate the states of a button, page, or popup page, and can be
accomplished either through the clipboard or by drag-and-drop:

Replacing States From the Clipboard

1. First select the button, page, or popup page whose states will be copied. From the State
Manager window, select the source states. Hold down the Ctrl key while left-clicking to add
states to the selection. Hold down the Shift key while left-clicking to add a range of states to
the selection.
2. When the source states have been selected, copy them to the clipboard by selecting either
Edit > Copy, State Manager Context Menu > Copy , or the Ctrl-C keyboard accelerator.
3. With the source states copied to the clipboard, select the Multi-General or Multi-Bargraph
button whose states will be replaced.
4. Select the destination states. The power of Replace is in its ability to handle sets of destination
states unequal in number to the set of source states.

Replacing States Through Drag-and-Drop

A simplified alternative to using the clipboard to replace states within the same button is to use
drag-and-drop.
1. First select the source states. Hold down the Ctrl key while left-clicking to add states to the
selection. Hold down the Shift key while left-clicking to add a range of states to the selection.
2. With the source states selected, press and hold the left mouse button while over one of the
selected states.
3. While continuing to press the left mouse button, move the mouse over the first state to be
replaced.
4. Release the left mouse button. Beginning at the state the drop occurred over, states will be
replaced one-for-one until either the number of source states have been used or the end of the
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If the number of destination states is equal to the number of source states, the destination
states are replaced one-for-one from the clipboard.
If the number of destination states is less than the number of source states, the destination
states are replaced one-for-one until all have been replaced, with remaining source states
being unused.
If the number of destination states is greater than the number of source states, the
destination states are replace one-for-one until all source states have been used, at which
point replacing will start again at the beginning of the source states until all destination
states have been replaced.
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