AlbumGen Quick Mouse Reference
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This document provides a brief overview of mouse click and drag operations
available with AlbumGen. Please refer to the AlbumGen user's guide for more
information on mouse operations within the application.


1. Creating New Objects by Dragging
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AlbumGen by default only defines drag-creation for the line objects. The
other shape objects are set to presized width and height values, but you
can disable this in the preferences by selecting the No Default Size
( Drag & size when placing shape ). To drag size a new object on the page,
left-click on any part of the page, and hold the button down while
dragging in any direction. Release the button to set the object size.
Note that if you have grid spacing enabled, the drag rectangle will
grow and shrink by the size of the grid. You can not drag size an object
smaller than 5 by 5 millimeters.


2. Resizing Existing Objects
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Only one object may be selected for a resize operation to work. Click to
select the object to resize, then release the button and move the cursor over
the object until the direction sizing arrows appear over the object selection
anchors. If you move over any part of the object other than the selection
anchors, the cursor changes to the 4-way arrow shape, indicating a move
rather than a resize operation.

Click and drag the mouse when the cursor changes to a sizing cursor and drag
in any direction to make the object smaller or larger. You can not make the
object smaller than 5 by 5 millimeters. If grid spacing is enabled, the
object will only increase or decrease in size by grid space amounts. Release
the button to set the new object size.

Text objects can be resized, but the size increase will always be based on
the enclosing rectangle of the text object, which is set to be 10 percent
larger than the text itself.


3. Moving Objects
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Besides the nudging, position, and property dialogs being available for object
movement, you can simply click on any of the selected objects, and drag to a
new position. A drag rectangle equal in size to all of the selected objects
will appear as you drag to a new location. Release the button to set the new
position. If grid spacing is enabled, the objects will move by the grid space
amount.

If you have movement locks enabled on any objects, you will not be able to
resize or move these objects.


4. Context Sensitive Menus
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There a few context popup menus that are activated by right clicking on the
drawing page or left clicking on specific toolbar and toolbox buttons.

Right-click on any selected object to get a popup menu for all operations that
can be applied to the selected objects. Certain menu items may be grayed out,
depending on the number and type of objects selected.

Right-click on an area of the drawing page where the cursor is not over any
object to get the popup menu for the page operations.

Left-click on the nudge amount value in the toolbox on the left of the
AlbumGen screen for a popup menu specific to nudge value settings.

Left-click on the page scale percentage value or the down arrow to the right
of it for the popup menu specific to the page scale settings.

Left-click on the page preview button on the top toolbar for the popup menu
specific to the page preview options.


5. Multiple Object Placement
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To place multiple objects of one type on the page at one time, you hold down
the Shift key when placing new objects. To stop placing multiple objects,
simply click anywhere with the right mouse button.


6. Mouse Position Coordinates in AlbumGen
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The lower left corner of the status bar shows the current mouse coordinates,
in millimeters. If you are not placing, moving, or size-dragging any object,
the coordinates are shown to the nearest 0.1 millimeter. If page alignment is
enabled in the AlbumGen preferences, position 0,0 is the upper left corner of
the page where object placement can begin, which does not include the border
width or the page margins.

If you are moving, size dragging, or placing new objects, the coordinates
will be aligned to the grid spacing, so that you can easily see how objects
will snap to the current grid size.


7. The Page View Scrolling Panels
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AlbumGen does not use scroll bars like other applications, but instead uses
a similar approach with the use of scroll panels, which will appear at the
right and bottom of the screen when the page is larger than your screen.
There are groups of 3 buttons at each end of both scroll panels. These
buttons move the page by 1/10 page view, 1 page view, and to one of the
page edges. By clicking on the blank area of the panel between the buttons,
you will move one page view, the direction based on where you click on
the blank area.


8. The Nudge Movement Arrows
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These buttons not only move selected objects by the nudge amount, but also
move the page view if no objects are selected ( when the page view is
larger that the screen size ).

Click on any nudge arrow to move the page view by 1/10 of the current page
size.

Hold down Shift to move one page view in any direction.

Hold down Ctrl to move to one of the page edges.


9. The Zoom Detail Scale Mode
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The Escape key is used to zoom in and out of zoom detail mode, which is
a page scale where each pixel is equal to 0.1 millimeter. The first time
you press the Escape key, the page will be zoomed in so that it is centered
where the mouse cursor is currently positioned. When you press the Escape
key a second time, the page view and position returns to where you last
were before you entered zoom detail mode.


10. Zooming In/Out at a Specific Spot
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By holding down either the Shift or Ctrl key while clicking on the zoom in
or zoom out icons on the toolbar, the cursor will change to a magnifying
glass with a + or - symbol inside the lens. Simply move the cursor to the
point on the page to zoom in/out, and click with the left mouse button.
To cancel the zoom in/out mode, simply right click anywhere on the page
or hit the Escape key.


11. Quick Select in the Page Preview Mode
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When viewing one or more pages in the one of the page preview modes, you
can quickly go to a page by double-clicking on the thumbnail view of the
page. You normally would select a page in page preview mode by left-clicking
on the page number in the white box at the screen bottom.
