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Schematic View Toolbars 649
Preferences group
Double B uff er—Allows for double buffer display to
control viewport performance.
Zoom About Mous e Pointer —When this is turned
on you can zoom into wherever you place your
cursor. You can also zoom with the zoom wheel,
or hold
Ctrl andpressthemiddlemousebutton.
Pan to Added No des—When this is turned on
the Schematic View window will alter itself to
accommodate new objects or nodes as they are
added to the scene. When this is turne d off the
view is unchanged. Leave this off and turn off Auto
arrange, and Schematic v iew will not disturb the
layout of the nodes.
Use Wireframe Color —Uses the wireframe color to
shade the node in the Schematic View window.
Display Layout Warni ng—When this is on,
Schematic View will show a layout warning when
Always Arrange is first turned on.
Only Up date O n Focus—When this is turned on,
SchematicViewonlyupdateswithadditionsor
changes to the scene when it is given focus. This
lets you avoid constant redraws when making
changes in the viewport to the scene objects.
Move Children—When this is tu rned off you can
move the parent without affecting the children.
When this is tur ned on, moving a parent a lso
moves the children.
Show Tooltips—Toggles the display of tooltips
whenthecursorisoverthenodeintheSchematic
View window.
Snap Floaters—Enables floating dialogs (Display
and L ist) to snap to the edges of the Schematic
View window.
Relative Floaters—Enables floating dialogs to move
and resize as the Schematic View window is moved
and resized.
S chema ti c View Toolba r s
Menu bar > Graph Editors > New Schematic View > Top
and bottom toolbars
Menu bar > Graph Editors > S aved Schematic Views
> Choose a saved schematic view. > Top and bottom
toolbars
Main toolbar > Schematic View button > Top and bottom
toolbars
The Schematic View toolbar at the top of the
window contains the following buttons:
Display Floater—Displays or hides the Display
Floater. Active button means floater is open,
inactivebuttonmeansit’shidden.
Select—Lets you select objects in the
Schematic View window and in the viewport.
Selecting objects in the Schematic View window
turns the node yellow. Selecting the objects in
the viewport, outlines their Schematic View
representat ion box in white, but doesn’t select it
in the Schematic view window. I f you want to
the selection in Schematic v iew passed into the
viewport use the Sync Selection button. Whatever
is selected in Schematic v iew will become selected
in the viewport as well.
Connect —Lets you create hierarchies. Just as
you link objects in the viewp orts, you can create
linkages in Schematic View. Click the child and
connect to the parent. You also use this to add
modifiers to objects, and to wire parameters.
Unli nk Sel ected—Unlinkswhateverisselected
in the Schematic View window.
Delete Obj ects—Deletes whatever is selected
in Schematic View. The deleted selection
disappears in the viewport and the Schematic
View window .