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Double-clicking to the right of Items in Object Inspector when a Graphic control is selected opens this editor.
#remarks_header[Parts of the editor]#
The editor consists of the design area, list of objects, property inspector, status bar, the toolbar, context menu, and three buttons.
The design area is where objects are drawn. By default, the grid is displayed. To hide it, click on Options, then on Show grid. As illustrated above, an object has handles. They show as red squares.
The list of objects lists the objects that are currently in the design area. To select an object, click on it here. When selected, the handles of the object are displayed.
The list is in order of Z-order, from back to front.
The property inspector displays the properties of the selected object. To show the handles of a line or bezier curve even when it is not selected, set Show points to True.
The status bar displays the position of the cursor and the number of objects.
The toolbar contains icons for:
The Edit button opens a drop-down menu. It contains: Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Bring to front, and Send to back.
The context menu offers the same choices; however, as explained below, it sometimes also offers Insert a breakpoint and Remove a breakpoint.
The Options button opens a drop-down menu. It contains: Show grid and Create next shape with current formatting.
#remarks_header[Operations]#
To add an object to the control:
Unless Create next shape with the current formatting is checked before adding the object, it is drawn with the default brush width, brush color and fill setting: 1 pixel, black, not filled.
To adjust the size of an object, select it either in the design area or in the list of objects, then either:
To move an object:
To select several objects:
To change the brush or fill color of an existing object:
To make visible an object partially or wholly hidden by another, filled, object:
Alternatively:
Koda also offers a multi-line or segmented line shape, i.e. a line with another line attached to its end. Koda still calls this a line in the list of objects.
To create a segmented line:
This feature is powerful enough to insert a line segment starting from the middle of a segmented line.
To remove a point from a segmented line: