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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

You can turn off the display of toolbars tool’s family when the Drop Down interface
entirely or turn them on again by selecting is active. If you select a tool that does not
belong to a family, the previously selected
View> Toolbars .
tool’s family will continue to display in the
Drop-Down Tools Tool Palette.

Click on the arrow to the right of a button to When you click the Window Tools
display a drop-down list of related tools. For Parent button, for example, its Child buttons
example, click the arrow to the right of the display in the Child Tool Palette.
Window button to display a drop-down
list of the other Window Tools.

Click the Settings button at the bottom
of the palette to select how the tools within it
are presented:

The most recently selected tool displays in • Select Fit Palette to resize the palette
the toolbar. so that it is one row wide.

• Select Grid View to display only the
Child Tool Palette
button icons of the child tools in a grid
An alternative to Drop-Down toolbars is the that may have multiple rows, depending
Parent button and Child Tool Palette on the width of the palette side window.
interface. Parent toolbar buttons have a blue
triangle in the lower right corner. When you • Select List View to display child
select a Parent button, its Child tools display tools in a vertical list with each tool’s but-
in the Child Tool Palette. If the Child Tool ton icon and name in a row.
Palette has been closed, it will open. You can open the Tool Palette at any time,
even when Drop Down tools are enabled, by
By default, the Child Tool Palette is docked
on the left side of the program window; but it selecting View> Tool Palette . See “View
can be undocked and moved, as well as Tools” on page 159.
resized and closed, just like other side
windows. See “Side Windows” on page 37. Drop-Down Controls

As long as it is open, the Child Tool Palette In addition to tool and setting buttons, there
will also display the members of a selected are a number of drop-down controls that let

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