Editing toolbar

The Editing toolbar is used to align, center, space and size the various controls. The Editing toolbar icons are gray when they are not active. To make them active, you must select one or more controls. In addition, there are icons to set the tab order, test the power pad, and set the power pad options.

In order to use the features of the Editing toolbar, you must know how to select multiple controls.

Selecting power pad objects

After you have placed several power pad controls on the canvas, you can select any control by clicking it.

Selecting multiple power pad objects

To select more than one power pad control, hold down the shift key and click each control. Keep selecting until you have selected all the desired controls. Clicking away from the controls on a blank section of the canvas de-selects them.

Toolbar groups

The Editing toolbar is divided into the following groups:

Table 4: Editing toolbar groups and icons

Group	Icon(s)	Function
Alignment		Used to align two or more controls.
Centering		Used to center one or more controls.
Spacing		Used to equalizes the space between tree or more controls.
Make Same Size		Used to make controls the same size.
Set Tab Order		Used to set the order in which the tab key moves the focus from button to button.
Test Pad		Used to launch the Power Pad in test mode.
Options		Used to set the grid settings of the Power Pad canvas.

Using the Editing toolbar

If you select two buttons, you can then choose from several icons on the Positioning toolbar. To see the functions that various icons perform, mouse over the icons and a pop-up window displays the name of the function.

In the following example, selecting the icon

makes the selected buttons the same height and width.

Similarly, the other sizing icons can be used to make multiple controls the same width or the same height. In addition, other positioning icons can be used to align the selected controls to the left, right, top bottom, etc.

The two positioning icons control the spacing between groups of controls. Spacing is the only one that require at least three controls to be selected.