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Quiz
Working with the Form Designer and the Menu Designer
Q I am trying to select a group of components on a panel by dragging the
selection rectangle around them, but I keep moving the panel. What’s wrong?
A You need to hold down the Ctrl key while dragging when you are selecting
components contained on a panel.
Q I’ve moved my components around my form several times and now the tab
order is erratic. What can I do to fix that?
A Choose Tab Order from the Form Designer’s speed menu. Arrange the tab order
the way you want it. When you click OK, the new tab order will be implemented.
Q The templates provided are nice, but they’ve got so much stuff on them that I
don’t need. What can I do about that?
A Basically, you can do two things. First, you can import a menu and then simply
delete the items you don’t want. Using the click, Shift+click method you can get
rid of unwanted menu items in just a few seconds. Deleting items from a menu
inserted from a template has no adverse effects. The second thing you can do is to
follow the click, Shift+click method and then, when you have the menu just the
way you want it, you can save it as a new template. That way you can keep the
original C++Builder-supplied template and have your customized template as well.
Q Can I save my own menus as templates?
A Yes. First create the menu and then choose Save As Template from the Menu
Designer speed menu. Give the template a name, click OK, and the template is
saved. Now all you have to do to reuse the menu later is insert the menu using the
Insert From Template feature.
1. When do you use Ctrl+drag in selecting components?
2. What significance does the first component selected have when you’re aligning a
group of components?
3. What is the quickest method of selecting a group of components?
4. How can you make a group of components all have the width of the widest
component in the group?
5. What happens when you double-click a component on a form?
6. What does the alClient option of the Align property do?
7. What does the ellipsis following a menu item mean?
8. What two ways can you move a menu item?
9. How do you add keyboard shortcuts to menu items?
10. How do you initially disable a menu item?
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