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Dialogs

with a submenu have an arrow to the right of dow> Box Window . An icon image after
the name.
the menu path indicates that a toolbar button
Menu items with an icon to their left have a is also available.
toolbar button associated with them. Some
buttons are not included on the toolbars but Contextual Menus
can easily be added. See “Toolbar
Customization Dialog” on page 145. Contextual menus are context-sensitive
menus that display tools relevant to a
The menus can be accessed using the selected object or view. To open a contextual
keyboard. Press the Alt key once to enable menu, right-click on an object, in an empty
this functionality - one letter in each menu space in a view window, or in a text field in a
will become underlined. Press the key dialog box.
associated with one of these underlined
letters to expand its menu - one letter in each
menu item’s name will be underlined. Press
the key associated with one of these letters to
activate that tool or access the item’s
submenu. Press the Esc key to undo your last
selection, or click with the mouse to exit out
of this functionality.
Many tools in Chief Architect also have Contextual menu for floor plan view
hotkeys associated with them. If a menu item
has a hotkey, it will display to the right of the The options in an object’s contextual menu
item’s name. See “Hotkeys” on page 148. are usually the same as those on an object’s
Edit toolbar. See “The Edit Toolbar” on page
38.
Contextual menus can be enabled or disabled
in the Preferences dialog. When contextual
Edit menu items with button icons menus are disabled, right-clicks perform
to the left and hotkeys to the right
generic object selection, much like when the
In the Chief Architect documentation, menu Select Objects tool is active See
paths are written in this format: Build> Win- “Appearance Panel” on page 105.

Dialogs

Default and preference settings, object Many dialogs have multiple panels, which
specifications, display settings, and many are listed in a tree list on the left side of the
other functions are accessed through dialog dialog. Click on a panel name in the list to
boxes.

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