Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 10—Programs and the Visual Programmer
4 The Home Control Assistant
There is one very important thing to note about this dialog. Look in the lower right hand corner.
Note the standard Windows mark for a dialog that can be expanded. To make the dialog bigger,
left click on that mark and drag the mouse to expand the dialog. Doing this makes it much simpler
to see large programs.
Areas of the Visual Programmer
The Visual Programmer tab contains a number of areas.
 The large area marked in a grid pattern is the programming canvas. This displays the
programs that you create.
 At the upper right is a Toolbox, which provides a number of actions that you can take with the
Visual Programmer.
 Directly below the toolbox is a button used to check the program to make sure it is all defined
correctly.
 Below the validate button is a palette showing all the different elements that you can use to
construct your program.
This section discusses each of these areas, except the programming canvas, which has its own
section, following.
Toolbox
The toolbox contains buttons for a number of operations that you might use when creating your
programs. These operations are listed below (going from left to right, and top to bottom).
Cut—removes the current selection from the programming canvas and places it on the clipboard.