User Manual

Macro Pages
Editing and Assembling Elements
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2. Drag the template from the Resource/Library Browser to the canvas or to a group on
the canvas.
The destination lights up to indicate where the control will be placed.
Editing Templates
To edit a template, click Edit Element on the toolbar or select Edit on the context menu. This
opens the GUI Tree for the template, that is, only the template content is shown.
You can edit templates in the same way as other macro page elements. When you have
finished editing, click Switch Back to Macro Page/Parent Template to leave template editing
and return to the editing of the macro page. The modifications are now visible in every
occurrence of the template on the macro page.
Browsing for Files
When creating a macro page, you need a variety of different files. You can work with control
libraries, use elements or groups of elements from other macro pages, and even create your
own graphical elements in a graphics program and use these in HALion. To browse for all
these kinds of files, you use the Resource/Library Browser.
The Resource/Library Browser gives you access to factory and user libraries that contain
templates. It allows you to search for files that you can use in macro pages and allows you
to save your favorite browse locations. Furthermore, you can also browse the contents of
existing macro pages, which means that you can reuse templates from other macro pages,
for example.
To open the Resource/Library Browser, click Show/Hide Resource/Library Browser on the
toolbar.
To specify the folder that you want to browse for files, click the Select Folder icon on the
toolbar and navigate to the folder on your system, or select one of the locations from the
Select Location pop-up menu.
You navigate through the folders by clicking the folder icons. If you are not on the topmost
level of the hierarchy, the leftmost folder lets you move up a level. To browse the content of
macro pages and control libraries, click their icons.
Browse Locations
By specifying browse locations, you can save shortcuts to the folders that contain control
libraries, bitmaps, etc. If you have folders on your hard disks that you often need, save them
as browse locations.
• To define a folder as browse location, open it in the Resource/Library Browser, click
Save Location on the toolbar, and save the folder as HALion subpreset.