Working With The Resource Manager - AMX TPDESIGN4 V2.5 Instruction Manual

Working With the Resource Manager

Select Panel > Resource Manager (or click the toolbar button) to open the Resource Manager
dialog. This dialog contains features and options that allow you to easily organize and manage
Images, Slots and Sounds for your project, organized into four tabs:
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:
You can also cut/copy/paste within any of the tabs.
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.
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Images: The Images tab provides a convenient way to import and preview all image files
to be used in your project. TPDesign4 supports most popular image formats.
Dynamic Images: The Dynamic Images tab allows you to manage images that exist on
an HTTP server or FTP server, external to the panel. Dynamic images can be refreshed at
specified regular intervals or via the Panel > Refresh Dynamic Images option.
Slots: The Slots tab allows you to manage slot assignments for images and icons.
Sounds: The Sounds tab provides a convenient way to import and preview all sound files
(.WAV or .MP3) to be used in your project.
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 multiple images, you'll only see the first one that you selected.
Delete: Select one or more files and click Delete to delete them from the collection. 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, containing
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.
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