The Design page contains the Design canvas, where you can visually
edit a map set. You can also customize the display options for the canvas.
Design canvas
The Design canvas provides
the space for customizing a map set. Use the scroll bars to view the entire
visual editing space.
Right-clicking the pop-up
menu also provides the available design and filter options and edit
options.
To add an item to the canvas, click the item icon on the palette
and click the cursor at the canvas location that you want. You can also drag
the item to the canvas.
When you select an item in the Design canvas,
that item is highlighted in the Outline
view, and property value information is shown in the Properties
view.
Edit options and keyboard shortcuts
Table 1 lists
the edit options and the corresponding keyboard combinations. These options
are also available from the right-click
pop-up
menu.
Table 1. Design canvas edit options| Option |
Keyboard shortcut |
| Undo |
Ctrl+Z |
| Redo |
Ctrl+Y |
| Cut |
Ctrl+X |
| Copy |
Ctrl+C |
| Paste |
Ctrl+V |
| Delete |
Delete |
| Save |
Ctrl+S |
Important: The Undo and Redo operations
apply to operations performed in either the Outline view or the Design canvas.
For example, if you cut a field in the Design canvas, the Undo
Cut option is enabled in the Outline view pop-up menu.
Selecting and moving items
To select and
move items on the Design canvas, use the Palette view
Select tool
from the Default drawer. Click the item and press the mouse
button while dragging. While dragging an item, a pop-up display shows location
information. For a map, the row and column value are displayed, along with
the height and width of the map. For a field, the row and column value within
the map are shown, along with the field width.
To select
multiple items in sequence, use the Select tool in
the Design canvas, and press the Ctrl key while clicking the items to be selected. You
can then click one highlighted item and move the entire group of selected
items.
To draw a box around the items that you want in
the Design canvas, press the Shift key while you use the Select tool.
To draw a box around the items in the Design canvas and have
only nodes selected, use the Marquee tool. Then
use the Select tool to create a cursor for moving the
items.
Display options
Use the following display
options to customize the Design canvas.
- Terminal Size
- This selector enables you to create maps for several potential CICS® screen sizes.
The default value is 24 × 80.
- Toggle Gridlines
- This option hides or shows the grid lines in the Design canvas.
- Toggle Samples Values
- This option shows the type of data allowable in a variable field and the
size of the field. For example, a numeric field of 4 units will show a sample
value of 9999. An alphanumeric field shows XXXX.
- Toggle Black and White Mode
- This mode enables you to view fields and maps in a high-contrast canvas.
- Zoom Level
- This option controls the zoom level of the Design canvas.
- Filters
- This option enables you to view and prioritize a subset of the maps in
the Design canvas.
By default, all maps are shown. You create new filters to display customized
groupings of maps. You can also change the ordering of maps in the list.
Printing
To print the design canvas, click from
the menu toolbar. You can also use the Ctrl+P key combination or select
Print from
the menu.
Note: You cannot print individual maps or fields that are in the
design canvas.
Bidirectional options
If you have
enabled bidirectional support,
a
Toggle Bidirectional Mode button is displayed on
the Design page toolbar.
The following toggle options are available:
- Visual Data
- Toggles between visual ordering of text and the default logical ordering.
- RTL Map Set
- Toggles the orientation of the map set and the horizontal ruler between
left-to-right to right-to-left.
- Symmetric Swapping
- Resets swappable characters. For example, in a right-to-left string, the
opening parenthesis ( and closing parenthesis ) will
be reversed.
- Numeric Swapping
- Sets an inversion of the screen, which causes Hindi numerals to be replaced
by their Arabic counterparts and the Arabic numerals to be replaced by their
Hindi counterparts.