BoardMaster Help

In addition to menus and icons, BoardMaster has a number of shortcuts than can be accessed using the right mouse button. For common menu selections that are associated with a panel, select the panel with the left mouse button and then click the right mouse button. Selecting an area of the storyboard that is not a panel, and then clicking the right mouse button will provide a different menu with choices related to the entire project.

Navigate Toolbar

To navigate around your BoardMaster project select "Move" from the main menu. Moving by Panel will navigate one panel at a time. Moving by Page will jump one page. You can jump to the start or end of the project by selecting "First Page" or "Last Page" . The Navigate toolbar also provides these same capabilities. Move the mouse over one of the buttons to have a "tool tip" display what the button does.

To make your working environment more comfortable, you can move both the Navigate toolbar and Project toolbar to any location you wish. Simply grab a portion of the toolbar that is not an icon with the left mouse button and drag it to a new location. Also, you can select "View" from the main menu to hide the status bar at the bottom of the screen, the navigate toolbar, or the project toolbar at the top of the screen.

Slider Control

The slider control is used for navigating the project as well. It becomes more useful as your project grows in size, allowing you to get to a particular section of your project fast. By clicking on the slider control, you can jump to a different part of your project, and then use the "Next Panel" icons to narrow in on the panel you are looking for.

Cut, Copy and Paste for Text and Panels

The Edit menu offers the following commands "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste". The icons shown above may also be used.

The commands can be used in edit boxes on the story board page and can also be used for panels. To cut, copy or paste a panel, select the panel with the left mouse button. A green square will appear around the panel when it is selected. Select cut or copy. Move to where you want the panel inserted then click on a second panel and choose paste to insert the panel. The panel will be inserted before the selected panel. Panels cut or copied to the clipboard are only meaningful to BoardMaster.

To copy a Panel image to the clipboard as a bitmap image for use in other applications use the "Copy Image as Bitmap" selection from the edit menu or icon above. Text can be cut or copied to the clipboard from BoardMaster and pasted into other applications or copied to the clipboard from other applications and pasted into edit boxes in BoardMaster .

Swapping Panels

You can swap an image quickly with a neighboring image using the "Swap Left" and "Swap Right" icons.

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