To change the name of an object, first click the object in the object list or tree view to select it. Then, do one of the following:
● Click the name of the object to select.
● Press F2.
You can now type in a new name using Identifier Naming Conventions. Press the ENTER key to accept the name. For more information on Label Editing, see below.
To change other properties of the object, such as a description, do the following:
1. Click the object that you want to select.
2. From
the Windows menu, select Properties
to display the Properties window of the object. You can also choose
the View Properties menu option or press ALT+ENTER.
This Properties window floats above the ATEasy
environment. You can move it into and out of the ATEasy
window.
3. If several tabs are available, choose the tab that contains information you want to edit by clicking on the tab name.
4. Click
in the property box you want to change and enter new information. Note
that you can change the object name as well. You can also click on a tab
to view and change other properties on a property page. The following
image shows the properties of a procedure variable:
5. To enter more than one line of description, click the Desc button to expand the Desc edit box. When you are finished entering the description, click the Desc button again to shrink the box.
6. Close the Property window by selecting Close from the Window menu.
For general information on the Properties window, see Properties Window. For more information on individual Property page windows, see the different topics of this guide.
The label editing allows not only renaming an object, but also allows to change the properties of an object which has type property. First it is enabled by the following ways:
1. Selecting the object followed by either click it again or by F2
2. Selecting the object followed by Ctrl + F2
The first way opens an edit field with its name only, while Ctrl + F2 opens with name followed by its type information and its initial value if exists as in:
In general you can enter a text string as in the ATEasy
text file variable syntax:
Name:TypeInfo='initial_value'
!'description'
Type Info followed by colon (:), initial value followed by equal sign (=), and description followed by exclamation mark (!) are all optional. The type info includes its data type, parameter information, optional or not, and public or not, etc.
This feature would allow you to change its type, initial value, and description without opening properties window.