Dragging An Icon; Selecting Multiple Icons - Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual

Fa/con030 Owner' s Manual
When you ' ve dragged the objects to the desi red location, release the left mouse
button to end the process. You need to drag to perform copy, move, or delete
operations.
If you drag a fil e icon or icons to a new destination and release the left mouse
button, the associated file or files w i l l be copied, moved, or deleted, depending
on the operation performed.

Dragging an Icon

When you drag icons from one location t o another, a ghost outline o f a l l selected
icons follows the poi nter from the original location to the dest ination. The poi nter
shape also changes from a poi nter to an out I ine of a hand until you release the left
mouse button.
Practice draggi ng an icon now by mov i ng the desktop icons i n to different
configurations. I f you accidenta l l y drag one icon on top of another icon, a special
w indow called a dialog box will d i splay. Select Cancel. The d ialog box
di sappears, and the moved icon returns to the pos ition it occupied before you
moved it.
Selecti ng M u lti p l e Ico ns
Sometimes you want to select more than one icon a t a t ime to perform delete,
copy, move, or other operations. There are t wo ways to select multiple icons .
The first w a y is u sing the rubber-band b o x t o select icons that are grouped
together on the desktop or in a w i ndow .
Use the poi nter t o create a box on the screen around the icons y o u w i sh t o select.
The box is cal led a rubber-band box , because i t expands or contracts when you
drag the pointer.
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