Selecting several controls with the Ctrl key

• The different types of handles are presented in the Notes.

Selecting several controls with the lasso of the mouse

The lasso of the mouse corresponds to a selection area. This area is represented by a dotted rectangle.

To select several controls at the same time:

1. Click beside the first control to select and keep the left mouse button down.
2. Move the mouse cursor to select all the controls: the selection area is represented by a dotted rectangle (the lasso of the mouse).
3. Release the mouse button when the selection is performed. The different types of handles are presented in the Notes.

Notes:

• By default, all the controls with a section included in the lasso area will be selected. To only select the controls that are entirely included in the lasso area, hold the Shift key down during the selection steps.
• To add a control to an existing selection or to delete a control from an existing selection, keep the Ctrl key down and click the control that must be added or deleted.
• When displaying the description window ("Description" from the popup menu of the selection), only the options common to the selected controls are displayed.

• click a non-selected control,
• click the background of window, page or report,
• click the title bar of window, page or report.

Handles of controls

• view the size of a control,
• modify the size of a control.

• The black handles are used to view and resize a control.
• The white handles can only be used to see a control. For example, when selecting several controls, the white handles indicate that the selected controls cannot be resized.
  This type of handles is also displayed when a window is in read-only mode for the developer: the controls cannot be modified.
• The gray handles indicate the first selected control during a multiple selection. This control will be the reference control.

Special case: selecting an overlayable control

• 1st method: Click the overlayable controls successively until you select the requested control.
  Note: The name of the selected control appears in the status bar.
• 2nd method:
  • Click the overlayable controls while holding the Shift key down. The name of overlayable controls is displayed in a popup menu.
    
  • Select the control in the popup menu.

Special case: selecting a control that belongs to grouped controls