Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 10—Programs and the Visual Programmer
The Home Control Assistant 5
Copy—duplicates the current selection and places it on the clipboard.
Paste—Inserts the clipboard contents onto the programming canvas.
Zoom in—Makes program elements in the canvas appear larger.
Zoom out—Makes program elements in the canvas appear smaller.
Undo—Reverses your last change.
Snippet Wizard – A wizard the can create useful sequences of elements that can be pasted into
your program.
Connect program elements—Enters into a mode to connect elements.
Label elements—Place text next to each element that shows what it does.
The first six of these tools are for activities that should be familiar to Windows users. The other
operations – the snippet wizard, connect, and label, are described below.
Element Palette
Below the toolbox is a palette containing all the different elements that you can use to construct
your program. Everything that your program can possibly accomplish is listed here.
What you see in the list may be different than the screen images presented here. As described in
chapter 2, you can configure which elements show in this list and in what order they appear.
There are two ways to view the Element Palette. The first method - shown in the screen image
above – shows only icons for the elements. If you check the Show Descriptions checkbox below
the Element Palette, the elements are show with descriptions.
If you don’t use “Show descriptions” you can hover the mouse over an element in the palette and
an info tip shows what the element does.