Copying/Pasting Buttons; Paste Controls Dialog - AMX TPDESIGN4 V2.5 Instruction Manual

Working With Buttons
When copying a page between panels, or when converting between panel types that both support
external buttons, the configuration of the source controls are copied to the destination controls
according to the type of control: general, LED, cursor up, cursor down, cursor left, cursor right, or
cursor select.

Copying/Pasting Buttons

Copying a button or buttons from a page or popup page is possible by selecting the desired buttons
in an active Design View window then either selecting Edit > Copy from the main menu or by
clicking the Copy button in the Main toolbar.
You can paste (by either clicking Edit > Paste from the main menu or the Paste button in the main
toolbar) a previously copied button or buttons onto:
1. a page or popup page name in the Workspace Navigator window (no open Design View
window required) or
2. the active Design View window.
While copying buttons from a page to a popup page and the location or dimensions of the copied
buttons exceeds the boundaries of the target popup page, the pasted items will attempt to maintain
their size, only adjusting the properties required for them to properly fit on the target popup page.
Pasting a button or buttons 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) or on the folder named Popup
Pages (which is for popup pages only) is not allowed.
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. 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).

Paste Controls dialog

Select Button > Paste Control to open the Paste Control Options dialog. Use the options in this
dialog to specify exactly which elements of copied buttons you want to retain when they are pasted
back to the project. The options in this dialog include:
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Page specific external controls settings are accessed via each page's Design View (with
the Page > Show External Controls option enabled).
Function Codes: Click these options to select which aspects of function codes (Address
Codes, Channel Codes, and Level Codes) will be retained when the button is pasted from
clipboard memory. By default, all three options are checked, and all function codes are
retained when pasting the button.
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