Owner's Manual (Complete)

Chapter 10—Programs and the Visual Programmer
The Home Control Assistant 9
Or
1. Left mouse button down someplace on the canvas – not on an element - and drag. Let up the
mouse button to complete the rectangle. This creates a selection rectangle. Any element fully
contained in the rectangle will be selected.
You can use either of these methods to select as many elements as you need.
To add a new element:
1. From the element list, select the element you want to add to the canvas and drag in on to the
canvas and drop it where you want.
When you add a new element, the properties dialog for that element type automatically displays.
To delete an element:
1. Select an element or several elements – using either of the methods described above - and
press the Delete key on the keyboard or right click and select Delete from the popup menu.
Whatever you have selected is deleted. You can also delete connecting lines in this way.
To move an element:
1. Select the element or elements to be moved.
2. Click on one of the selected elements and drag the element(s) to the new location.
Whatever you have selected: element, elements, or connecting lines, are moved. Connecting
lines attached to the moved element(s) are stretched to maintain the connections.
To change the properties of an element:
1. Right click on the element and select Properties from the popup menu.
Or
1. Double click on the element.
The popup menu shows the
properties choice only if the element has properties.
To cut or copy an element to the clipboard:
1. Select the element(s)
2. Use the tools palette Cut/Copy buttons.
or
1. Right click on one of the elements in the selection, and choose Cut/Copy from the popup
menu.
Hint: The operations to delete, move, cut, and copy all work whether you have one or several
elements selected. The action that you choose happens to each element you have selected.
To paste an element from the clipboard:
1. Click the paste button from the tools palette. The element is pasted into the canvas on the
first unused row - starting from the top and moving down.
or
2. Use the right mouse button when over a blank cell on the programming canvas and select
paste from the popup menu. This will paste the clipboard contents at the location.
If you have more than one element on the clipboard (that is, you selected multiple elements and
then cut or copied), all the elements are pasted into the canvas. Any connecting lines between
elements that were present when they were placed on the clipboard are retained when pasted.