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The Draw environment provides construction tools for building your application screens. The vertical toolbar allows you to select an object and add it to a display. Click on items in the vertical toolbar to select the type of object you want and add it to your display. The horizontal toolbar provides you with various tools to align, group, merge, and/or rotate an object.

The Project Configuration Environments are:


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Selection Tool

  • Click once on an object to select it.
  • CTRL+click to select selects multiple objects ( and object groups), one at a time. Hold down the CTRL key as you click on each object.
  • Shift+click to toggle selected choose a main object from among more than one a group of selected objects.
  • Click in an open area of the display area then and highlight several elements to select a group of elements by highlighting the desired elements while holding down the left mouse button.elements 
  • Double-click on an object to open the "Dynamics configuration" window which that provides settings for dynamic object properties.

Direct Selection Tool

Use this tool to select an object inside a group ( and modify its properties). Click once on the object once to select it.

You can also add, remove, and modify the points in a Polyline with the Direct Selection Tool.

  • To move the point, select it by clicking click on the point to select it and hold down the left mouse button down. Drag the point to its new position.
  • Double-click on a point to add a new point adjacent to the selected point.
  • Right-click on a point to delete the selected point.

Hand Tool

Use the The Hand tool can be used to modify the view window by clicking . Click once on the display background and holding hold down the left mouse button then . Then, shift the display to the desired position

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Create a Rectangle object. 

 Create a Polygon object. 

 Create an Ellipse object. 

 Create a Polyline object.

 Create a Button object

Create a CheckBox object.

Right-click Click on this box to access the tools located in the horizontal popout menu. After When a tool is selected from this menu, it becomes the default main tool for that this block in the vertical bar. These options tools let you create a Radio-Button object, a ComboBox, a ListBox, PasswordBox, DatePicker, or a DateTimeTextBox


 Open the Symbol Library.

Using the graphical development tools, you

You can create

Symbols

symbols to use in

the project. The

your projects by using the graphical development tools. The library comes with an extensive set of symbols such as Switches, Tanks, Meters, Pumps, Buttons, Gauges, Sliders

and more

, etc.

 Insert Images.

Import You can import images or select them from the resource library.

Advanced control object.

Right Click click on this the advanced control object to access the tools that are in a the horizontal popout menu. This tool can be used to create a Web Browser, a PageSelector, a ReportViewer, XPSViewer, a CircularPanel, Calculator, or WPF Component object. 

Create an Alarm Window.

You can create and position the an Alarm Window. 

Create a Trend Window.

Position the Trend window and doubleYou can create a trend window and position it in the display. Double-click to open the configuration window.

Create a DataGrid Window.

Used Click on this to display and interact with data from the most common databases and data sources such as : Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, CSV files, Microsoft Access, PI, Firebird, Informix, and Excel. Any database that supports ODBC, ADO.NET, or OLE-DB can be accessed. 

Horizontal Toolbar

The Horizontal Toolbar toolbar provides the tools needed to manipulate objects within the display. These tools provide the following functions:

  • Grid definition
  • Screen Zoom
  • Group
  • Ungroup
  • Union
  • Intersect
  • Exclude
  • Exclusive-Or
  • AlignLeft
  • AlignHorizontalCenter
  • AlignRight
  • AlignTop
  • AlignVerticalCenter
  • AlignBottom
  • Move To The Front
  • Move To The Back
  • Resize Width
  • Resize Height
  • SpaceEvenlyHorizontal
  • SpaceEvenlyVertical
  • FlipHorizontally
  • FlipVertically
  • LockElement
  • UnlockElement (use Direct Selection Tool to select the locked object)
  • UnlockAllElement