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Palette view

The Palette view provides Design page selection tools and BMS Map Editor map set components.
The Palette view includes the following drawers:

Click the specific drawer label to show or hide the item list.

Default drawer

The Default drawer contains the Select and Marquee tools that come with Eclipse for editing files (including BMS map sets) that are based on the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF). For information on how to use these tools to select and move items, see Design page.

Customizing the Palette view

Right-click the palette and select Customize to add or change drawers or map components.
The following drawer and map component display options can be customized.
Name
The name displayed in the palette
Description
Text that is displayed when you move the mouse pointer over the palette item
Hide
A check box that prevents the item from being displayed in the palette
The following drawer options are available.
Open drawer at start-up
The drawer is expanded when the Palette view is shown.
Pin drawer open at start-up
The drawer remains pinned open unless you click the drawer to close it.

You can hide any of the drawers or add new drawers. However, you cannot delete the five initial drawers.

You can change the default display properties for the palette entries from the BMS Map Editor preferences dialog.


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