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Working with the Form Designer and the Menu Designer
To illustrate, first start with a blank form and then perform the following steps:
1. Place three button components anywhere on the form. They will automatically be
labeled Button1, Button2, and Button3.
2. Click Button1. The black sizing rectangles are placed around the component.
3. Press and hold the Shift key on the keyboard. Click Button2. It is added to the
selection. Gray boxes now appear at the corners of both Button1 and Button2.
4. Shift+click on Button3. Now all three buttons are part of the selection.
5. Shift+click again on Button2. Button2 is removed from the selection (the gray
boxes disappear), but Button1 and Button3 are still in the selection.
6. Shift+click on Button1. Now Button3 is the only component in the selection. The
gray boxes are replaced with the black sizing rectangles.
7. Shift+click on Button1 and Button2. All three buttons are now part of the selection
again.
Figure 7.2 shows the form as it should look at the end of this sequence. Keep in mind that
your buttons could have been placed anywhere on the form.
Figure 7.2.
A form with three
buttons selected.
NOTE
Keep the form handy because you’ll use it again in the next exercise.
If you click on a component that is part of a group selection, nothing
will happen. In order to select a single control that is currently part of a
group selection, you need to first click on the form’s background or
press the Esc key to remove the group selection. Then you can click on
the individual control you want to select.
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