Working in ViewDraw

This section briefly discusses using mouse buttons, menus, keyboard commands, function keys, toolbar icons, and dialog boxes in ViewDraw.

Mouse Buttons

Mouse buttons perform the following functions in ViewDraw.

• The left mouse button selects objects in ViewDraw. Use the Control key with the left mouse button to select multiple items.
  
  
• The right mouse button brings up a menu of common commands, like Properties, Add Component, Add Net, Delete, and Zoom. These commands refer to the selected items, or the schematic sheet itself if you selected nothing. The menu choices vary depending on the items selected.
  
  

Menus

ViewDraw offers eight menus. You can select menu commands with the mouse or the keyboard. With the mouse, click the left mouse button on the desired command. With the keyboard, press the Alt key and type the letter underlined in the command.

This document uses only the menu command in most situations. You can access most commands in a number of other ways, including keyboard hot keys or function keys, the command line, toolbar icons, and the right mouse button.

Keyboard Commands

You can use a set of “hot keys” in place of the pull-down menu or the toolbar icon. The keyboard commands appear next to their equivalent command in the pull-down menus. For example, selecting File Open displays the keyboard command Ctrl+O on the right side of the pull-down menu.

Function Keys

You can use the function keys labeled F1, F2, F3, and so forth on your keyboard to invoke particular commands in the Workview Office tools. The next figure shows their assigned functions.

Figure 3.2 Function Keys

Command Line

You can enter certain commands via the command line, shown in the following figure. Open this toolbar from View Command Line, and you can dock or float it like the other toolbars. To obtain the complete list of valid command line commands, select Help ViewDraw Help Topics. Under the Index tab, select “Command Line Commands” and click on the Display button.

Figure 3.3 Command Line Toolbar

Toolbar Icons

Toolbar icons appear around the edges of the ViewDraw. When you move the cursor over each icon, a description of its function appears in the status bar at the bottom of the ViewDraw screen. You can place these toolbars anywhere around the ViewDraw screen, or you can pull them off and leave them “floating.” See the “Toolbar” figure, “View Toolbar” figure, “Object Toolbar” figure, and “Transform Toolbar” figure. You can turn them on or off from the View pull-down menu.

Figure 3.4 Toolbar

Figure 3.5 View Toolbar

Figure 3.6 Object Toolbar

Figure 3.7 Transform Toolbar

Dialog Boxes

An ellipsis (...) following a ViewDraw menu command indicates that the command brings up a dialog box in which you can enter information and set options.

You can find the following common fields are common in many of the ViewDraw dialog boxes.

• OK - closes the dialog box and implements the intended action according to the settings in the dialog box
  
  
• Cancel - closes the dialog box without effecting any action
  
  
• Help - gives you information about how to use the dialog box