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GUI Features

The use of OT GUIs heavily relies on selecting and manipulating itemsby means of standard GUI conventions such as mouse-driven positioningof the cursor or mouse-button clicking to select elements. The editoptions Cut, Copy and Paste, as well as theoptions to "Drag and Drop" and other operationson items in the Project Tree, are all implemented and work basicallyin the same way as on most windows-based platforms. They work within aproject and between projects (including the Template Library). Todrag/move and drop: select with the left mouse button, then drag withbutton held: drop into an appropriate location. To drag/copy and drop:select with CTRL-left mouse button, then select the location for thecopy. Note that for read-only resources, such as the Template Library,all actions are copies, never moves.

Items that can be dragged/dropped include:

Clearly, it is only possible to drop/paste these into appropriateplaces i.e. you cannot drop an ObsUnitSet into a SB, or a Resourceinto a Science Goal. Also, it is not possible to move SBs orObsUnitSets, either within the same project or between the TemplateLibrary and a project. Instead, such an item will be copied. The copyof an SB or ObsUnitSet will have the term "Copy of" prefixed to itsname.


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