One of the features of ProcessBook's displays
are the ability to incorporate Static Shapes to
complement or give context to some of the
dynamic symbols and dynamic elements that you put on your
screen. And, generally, the Static Shapes fall into one
of three categories. We have your Basic Shapes,
which are things like simple rectangles, circles,
lines,
chunks of text. Anything that is
basic and static would fall into that
category. And we'll look at those in a few moments.
And then we have something called the Symbol Library, and we --
the Symbol Library is a library
of graphics that we have licensed
from a company that produces these
things. And, this
Symbol Library contains pre-canned graphics that pertain
to many of the industries that use the --
our product, our ProcessBook product. So, if you
have to draw something like a conveyor,
or a pipe, or a certain type of
machine, it may already be in our Symbol Library and you won't have to
complete all the elements to it. And then, finally,
if there's nothing that you want to draw with the
Basic Shapes, or you can't find an element that's
in the Symbol Library, you can always import an image file
as long as it's one of the many formats that we support.
So, you can bring in almost
any type of graphic into ProcessBook,
and all of these graphics can be grouped,
colored, connected -- you can do a lot of things with
them once you get them into ProcessBook. And we're gonna spend a
few minutes looking at the various Static Shapes that are
associated with the application.
I'm going to start out the Basic Shapes discussion by
creating a new display
within my workbook, and I'll call this Graphics,
and I'll make this a Level 2
so it's included on our Page 1.
And you can see that a new display opens up
and is titled Graphics. And what I'm gonna do
is go to the Draw Menu and show you that the top of the
Draw Menu is primarily concerned with these two basic
type of graphic. I'll select to the rectangle
to begin with. You'll notice that my cursor changes.
I will draw a square, and that will be
a rectangle. You can also do this from the Toolbar
by selecting Rectangle and drawing a
rectangle. And you can see that once you've drawn them,
you can move them, resize them,
bring them around the board, or on the display
board, and add items to it.
The same way with circles. You can create
circles of any size
and orientation. You can make flat circles.
Now you may notice that
every time I'm drawing a circle, it's coming out as a
green circle with a black outline. And
this is controlled by the Default Color
Scheme for ProcessBook. And the
Default Color Scheme is set by
essentially selecting nothing on the screen -- clicking out
in the open area -- and then selecting Edit
and Color. And this will allow you to set
the Default Colors for things that you draw. You can see I've got a
black line is the default. The
fill that I have is a dark green
and the background is None.
If I change this to make the line
a white line
with blue filling, that will allow me
to create those type of objects. So, you
can see that every time I draw something now, it's
a white line with blue filling.
If you want to change the colors of just one element,
you simply click on that element and use the same menu
selections -- Edit, Format, Color --
and you can change the color
or style of that.
Now all of these items can be grouped and arranged.
So, for example, if I want to group my green
rectangle and my yellow circle,
I go into the Arrange Menu and select -- oops --
select both of them using the control, click
method, Arrange and Group, and that allows
me to group these. And they are now grouped.
So I can group them -- simply select Arrange and then Group.
I can change the order of these items by
selecting the one that appears to be drawn in back
and selecting Arrange and Bring to
Front, and that will change the order. So, you can see,
there's a lot of different things that you can do
with these Static Shapes.