Edit Menu

This menu is available when a View Window has Input Focus.

Undo

When this menu is enabled, its text indicates exactly what will be undone; i.e. "Undo move" or "Undo cut".

The application has multi-level undo capability. Operations done are stored in a list. A separate undo list is maintained for each View Window. The number of undo levels supported (maximum length of the undo list) is set in the User Interface Options Dialog. Operations will be undone in the reverse order as they were originally done to a view.

The Undo menu item will be unavailable immediately following a File Save (or File Save As) as a view's undo list is purged when a view is saved.

As editing operations are performed on a view, information required to undo the operations is stored in memory. Some operations such as moving a block consume very little memory. Other operations such as Edit Delete consume potentially large amounts of memory (all deleted objects must be stored in memory in case they need to be restored by undo). It is therefore possible for Windows to run low on memory if many memory intensive editing operations are performed between saves and/or the number of undo levels is set unnecessarily high.

Cut

In Control Mode, it copies the Current Values of all selected Control Objects to the clipboard then resets the Current Value of these objects to their device default values. Ordering of the resultant copied values on the clipboard is determined by the order the objects were selected if the shift-click Selection Method was used, or by a left to right, top to bottom sort if a selection rectangle was used.

In Edit mode all Selected Objects and any wires common to the Selected Objects are moved to the clipboard. Any other wires connected to the Selected Objects are deleted.

Copy

This Edit Menu item is available in Control Mode, Edit Mode and Paint Mode when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when no objects are selected in the View Window. In Paint Mode, it is also gray when more than one object is selected.

Mode	Effect
Control	Copies the Current Values of all selected Control Objects to the clipboard. Ordering of the resultant copied values on the clipboard is determined by the order the objects were selected if the shift-click Selection Method was used, or by a left to right, top to bottom sort if a selection rectangle was used.
Edit	Copies all Selected Objects and any wires common to the Selected Objects to the clipboard.
Wire	No Effect
Paint	Causes the color of the Selected Object to become the selected color in the Palette Window.

Paste

This Edit Menu item is available in Control Mode and Edit Mode when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when the clipboard is empty.

Mode	Effect
Control	Used to set the Current Values of the selected controls. The order in which values are pasted from the clipboard is determined by the order the objects were selected if the shift-click Selection Method was used, or by a left to right, top to bottom sort if a selection rectangle was used.
Edit	Prepares to paste objects from the clipboard into a View Window or Child Window. The screwdriver cursor appears. Click in the View Window or Child Window where you would like the clipboard contents to be pasted.
Wire	No Effect
Paint	No Effect

Delete

This Edit Menu item is available in Control Mode, Edit Mode and Wire Mode when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when no objects are selected in the View Window.

Mode	Effect
Control	All Selected Objects are reset to their device default values.
Edit	All Selected Objects and any wires connected to these objects are deleted. Deleted objects may only be recovered with Undo.
Wire	Delete uses the following rules to determine what wire or wires to delete. Only the first condition that is satisfied is executed... If one or more wires are selected, those wires are deleted. If one or more nodes are selected, the wires attached to those nodes are deleted. If one or more Block Objects are selected, all wires connected to those Block Objects are deleted.
Paint	No Effect

Select All

This Edit Menu item is available when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when there are no objects in the View Window.

All objects in the View Window or Child Window with Input Focus are selected.

Duplicate

This Edit Menu item is available in Edit Mode when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when no objects are selected in the View Window.

All currently Selected Objects are copied. The system is placed in a Paste Ready state ( cursor) so that you can specify the destination for the duplicate.

Duplicate differs only slightly from a Copy followed immediately by a Paste. Duplicate does not use the clipboard so the previous clipboard contents remain intact.

Find...

Invokes the Find command.

Clear Find Results

Clears the items selected from the last Find command.

Align

This Edit Menu item is available when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when less than two objects are currently selected.

Aligns respective left, right, top or bottom edges of all Selected Objects. Grouped objects are treated as a single object as large as the extent of the grouped objects when performing any Align operation.

For horizontal alignments (Align Left and Align Right) the edges are aligned to the top-most Selected Object. For vertical alignments (Align Top and Align Bottom) the edges are aligned to the left-most Selected Object.

Left

Choosing this option will cause the left edge of all selected objects to align vertically. The vertical line (not visible) that they all align to will be along the left edge of the uppermost device in the selected group.

Top

Choosing this option will cause the top edge of all selected objects to align horizontally. The horizontal line (not visible) that they all align to will be along the top edge of the left-most device in the selected group.

Right:

Choosing this option will cause the right edge of all selected objects to align vertically. The vertical line (not visible) that they all align to will be along the right edge of the uppermost device in the selected group.

Bottom:

Choosing this option will cause the bottom edge of all selected objects to align horizontally. The horizontal line (not visible) that they all align to will be along the bottom edge of the uppermost device in the selected group.

Pack

This Edit Menu item is available when a View Window has Input Focus. It is gray when less than two objects are currently selected.

First aligns respective left, right, top or bottom edges of all Selected Objects then packs objects along the opposite dimension.

For Pack Left and Pack Right operations the edges are aligned to respective edge of the top-most Selected Object and objects are packed vertically. Grouped objects are treated as a single object as large as the extent of the grouped objects when performing any Pack operation.

Left

This option is an extremely useful tool as it performs two operations at once. It aligns all selected devices vertically to the left and it packs them vertically so that the bottom edge of one device touches the upper edge of the device directly below it. The left edge of the uppermost device selected defines where the other devices align. All devices pack upwards so that the uppermost device selected will be on the top of the group of devices.

Right

This option is similar to the Pack Left command but it aligns all selected devices to the right.

Top

This option is similar to the Pack Left command but it aligns all selected devices to the top.

Bottom

This option is similar to the Pack Left command but it aligns all selected devices to the bottom.