
For copying Objects between Pages/Actions, you can also drag and drop them from the Objects
Panel to any of Thumbnail icons on the Pages panel. The Object gets copied with all its
properties, even the Keyframe animations set for it will be copied to the other Page. If you press
the Control key during the drop, not only the Object you dragged will be copied, but the whole
branch of Objects, that is all the Objects subordinated to the one you originally dragged. This is a
great timesaver if you need to make several graphics templates with only minor differences
between them. You can also click on Objects using the right mouse button and choose from the
context menu that appears next to the mouse pointer:
If you choose one of the Copy options, you also need to select the Thumbnail that represents the
Page/Action you want to copy the Object or Object hierarchy to (it can be the same Page as well).
Right-click on the Thumbnail to get its context menu and choose the type of paste action you
need.
5. It is not only with the help of numeric input fields that the common properties of Objects can be
modified. We have a more elegant, and more visual method for it, too. A great part of the right
side of the user interface consists of the Preview window which always shows the output of the
real time graphics engine. If the system has no broadcast hardware installed, this is the only
output which shows what we are doing, and if there is a broadcast hardware, it shows the same
picture.
Updating the image in the preview window is always synced to the broadcast standard chosen,
and not to the VGA card. Therefore, understandably, the movement may not be smooth and
occasional jumps can occur. This is of course not the case with the “real”, broadcast output.
In addition to showing the output, the Preview window has an important role. Here, too, you can
choose the required Object, simply by clicking on it with the left button of the mouse. Around the
object selected, the edges of a bounding box appear as stippled red lines (see picture above).
The object thus selected can be visually manipulated with the help of toggles on the right side of
the Preview window.
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