Design Surface Context Menu

When right-clicking the Design Surface, a context menu appears. The context menu includes commonly used commands:

• Document Properties: opens the Label Properties or Form Properties dialog.

• Paste: pastes clipboard contents on the design surface. Multiple reuses of a single clipboard item are allowed.

• Cut: removes the selected element(s) from the design surface and adds it to the clipboard to be pasted elsewhere.

• Copy: copies the selected object to the clipboard.

• Select all: selects all objects on the design surface.

• Alignment and Gridlines: allows you to define how the objects take their positions on the design surface.

  • Align to objects: makes the object on the design surface align with other objects. When two objects are aligned, a leading line appears linking the edges of the two aligned objects.

  • Align to grid: makes the object on the design surface align with gridlines. When moving the object, it always snaps to the gridline.

  • Do not align: allows you to move the objects freely.

  • Display gridline guides: makes the gridlines visible.

• Objects markers visibility: toggles visibility for the object properties. Markers become visible when moving the mouse pointer over the object.

  • Object name: marker shows the name of an object.

  • Internal element: marker shows if the selected object belongs to the internal printer elements.

  • Counter: marker shows that the connected variable is Counter.

  • Locked object: marker shows that an object's position is locked.

  • Events: marker shows that the form object runs assigned Available Actions.

• Zoom: defines zooming behavior.

  • Zoom to Document: shows the entire label in the Desktop Designer window.

  • Zoom to Objects: shows all objects in the Desktop Designer window.