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STYLES MANAGER
This tool is intended for managing the prepared styles library and also adding to the library a new created styles of Root, Container, Item components. The tool window consists of the following elements: toolbar, styles tree, scroll buttons, preview windows.
As a rule toolbar is disposed in upper part of the Styles manager window and contains five keys,
description of which is listed below.
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Add Style Item. During the selection of Root styles or Container styles or Item styles component and pressure of this key a new style is adding to the style library depending from selected component. By default new style is named, for example, Untitled root styles 0, where 0 is a style ordinal number.
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Remove Style Item. During the selection of component, for example, Untitled root styles 0 and pressure on this key the proper style of the selected component is destroyed: Root styles or Container styles or Item styles.
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Open Style Template. Opening of the style file, saved on hard drive. By default the style file has extension *. fmst.
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Save Style Template. Saving of the selected style on a hard drive. By default the saved style file is situated in the folder, where a program was installed, and has the name default.fmst.
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Save Style Template As... Saving of the selected style on a hard drive. Location and name of the saved style is determined by user.
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In order to see current active style enough to look at preview window, which is below the styles tree.
Scroll buttons
In case if user can't see all existing now styles in the Styles Tree Window
the scroll buttons are used, description of which is listed below.
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Button pan. At pressure on this key by the left mouse button, an user moves upwards on the styles tree of the created menu.
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Scroll box. At pressure on this key by the left mouse button and moving mouse, an user moves on the styles tree of the created menu upwards or downward, depending from movement of the mouse.
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Button pan. At pressure on this key by the left mouse button, an user moves downward on the styles tree of the created menu.
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Context menu
At clicking the right mouse button on the selected styles tree component a context menu appears, which consists from Apply style to... command,
used for applying the selected component style to selected appropriate Menu Tree Window component.
Drag&Drop
For comfortable applying of the selected style from style library to Menu Tree Window component Drag&Drop technology is used. For this purpose is needed to select the necessary style in Styles manager and retaining by pressed the left mouse button move it to the Menu Tree Window as shown on the picture.
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