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CONFIGURING THE COLOR VIRTUAL HMI
USING THE IMAGE LIBRARY
KEYBOARD OPTIONS
While creating a display primitive, the following keyboard options are available…
• Holding down the Shift key while dragging-out the primitive will cause the
primitive to be drawn such that it is centered on the initial mouse position, with
one of its corners defined by the current mouse position. (If this doesn’t make
sense, go ahead and try it—it’s a lot easier to see than it is to explain!) This is
useful for drawing symmetrical figures centered on an initial point.
• Holding down the Ctrl key while dragging-out the primitive will keep its
horizontal and vertical sizes the same. This is useful when you want to be sure
that you draw an exact circle or square using the ellipse or rectangle primitives.
These options are also active when primitives are re-sized.
LOCK INSERT MODE
The padlock icon on the drawing toolbox can be used to add a number of primitives of the
same basic type without having to click the toolbox icon for each item in turn. To cancel lock
mode, click the padlock icon again, or press the Escape key. The same operation can be
performed by using the Lock Mode command on the Insert menu.
USING THE IMAGE LIBRARY
To add an image from Crimson’s extensive image library, click on the “book” icon in the
toolbar, or select the Picture / Image command from the Insert menu. The image library will
open at the last-accessed page, allowing an image to be selected…
Double-click on an image to select, and then drag-out the required size of the image as you
would when inserting any other kind of primitive. The software will automatically create a
Picture primitive containing the selected image. You should refer to the later sections of this
manual for details on how this primitive might be further manipulated.
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