Basic Editing Commands

AcuBench uses the standard set of commands and keyboard shortcuts to invoke basic editing commands. These commands include the following:

• To reverse your most recent action, choose the Edit/Undo (Ctrl+Z) command. You can restore the action that you reversed by choosing Redo (Ctrl+Y). The workbench supports multiple undo and redo actions, in reverse order until the last save performed.

  You can also use the Undo and Redo buttons on the Standard toolbar.

  

• To cut and copy controls to the clipboard, select the control(s) that you want to cut or copy and choose the Edit/Cut (Ctrl+X) or Edit/Copy (Ctrl+C) commands. Cut removes the control from the screen and places it on the clipboard. Copy adds a duplicate of the selected control to the clipboard.
• After you cut or copy a control to the clipboard, you can paste it to a screen form (Edit/Paste or Ctrl+V). If you paste the control from one screen form to another, the control is placed in the same location on the new screen that it occupied on the original screen. After pasting a control, you can move it to any location in the screen form.

  A pasted control retains many of the original control’s properties. However, it does not retain such unique properties as ID, name, and tab order. The Screen Designer assigns default unique properties, which you can change.

  After pasting multiple, identical controls, you can quickly change an individual property value so that it is unique for each control copy. Select all the control copies that you want to have unique variable names (for example, select five identical entry fields) and change the desired variable name in the Property window. AcuBench detects the multiple selection and asks if you want to give each selected control a unique name for that property. With a Yes response, AcuBench automatically increments the number in the variable name for each control so it is unique.