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Working with Windows


Each SDL Editor window shows one SDL page. The SDL Editor is a multi-window tool, allowing you to open new windows on a page and close windows that are no longer needed.

A newly opened window is a mirror image of the window from which the selection to open a window was made. Multiple windows may be opened (one at a time) and they are all identical with the first one. Any subsequent modifications made will reflect the same in either the original window, or any of the newly opened window(s). This option affords the possibility of viewing in more than one window, and can ideally be used in conjunction with the scaling factor when looking at a detailed page.

For information on how you open:

Opening and Closing Windows

Standardized functions for opening and closing windows are provided in the Window menu: New Window and Close Window. If you close the last window opened by the SDL Editor, the editor will exit.

Hiding and Showing Parts of the SDL Editor Window

You can show and hide the various component parts of the SDL Editor window. On UNIX, if they are hidden, it increases the drawing area available to be used in the creation or modification of pages of a diagram.

You find all the available options for hiding and showing parts of the window in the dialog box accessed via the Window Options command on the View menu. You can set all of these options as preferences.

All of these options are turned on and off with a toggle button. Some of these options are available with quick-buttons:

  • The quick-button for text window on / off or symbol menu on / off.


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