WaveWarp Users' Guide: last updated 28 February 2002

2.11-- Selecting the Active DrawingBoard

You can have arbitrarily many DrawingBoards open simultaneously (this is useful for copying-and-pasting components from one to another), but only one of them can be "active" at a given time. To switch an inactive DrawingBoard to become the active DrawingBoard, simply click with the left mouse button anywhere on the chosen DrawingBoard. Note that according to standard Windows convention, the active DrawingBoard is visually distinguished from inactive DrawingBoards by having a dark blue top border rather than a gray top border.

When there are many DrawingBoards open simultaneously, the associated screen clutter can lead to confusion when trying to locate and activate a given DrawingBoard by clicking on it. In such situations, a convenient alternative method for selecting the active DrawingBoard is to invoke the "Activate Open DrawingBoard" dialog which appears under the View menu, as shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8 Choosing the Active DrawingBoard from the list of available open DrawingBoards.