Selecting Items

Selecting Cells in Vector View

To select any cell, click Select in the Edit menu. In the Select dialog box, enter First and Last values in Channel Range and Step Range. Click OK. The dialog box closes. Selected cells in Vector View now display highlighted.

For cells that currently display in vector view, use the mouse.

Steps           Select one or more steps. All channels are selected. Click a step number in Vector View to select it. To select a group of steps, click one and drag the mouse to the last step in the group.

Channels      Selected one or more channels. All steps are selected. Click a channel in the Name or Board.Chan column. To select a group of channels, click a channel in the Name column and drag the mouse to the last channel.

Block           A group of channels and steps are selected. Select a corner box and drag the mouse diagonally to the opposite corner. Rows and columns between the first and last box are block selected.

Unselect      Click again to undo the selection of selected cells.

Selecting Items in a Windows List Box

Many DIOEasy list boxes support multiple item selection. The following standard Windows mouse procedure is used wherever a multiple selection is mentioned in this User’s Guide. Users familiar with these methods may skip ahead.

To select a block of items in a list, click the first item, then hold down the SHIFT key and click the last item. The two clicked items and all items between are selected and display as highlighted.

To select items in the list that do display in sequence, click the first. Now hold the CTRL key and click each additional item. All clicked items are now selected, but not items between.