| ARRIS uses the mouse on your computer as a cursor pointing tool. This allows you to point to and select User Interface buttons and graphic entities on the screen by moving the mouse and clicking on them. In ARRIS the mouse is used in three ways. The first use is for selection of buttons on the Graphic User Interface. The second use of the mouse is for selection of entities or points in the Display Window. The third use of the mouse is the Mouse Gestures feature. These three functions are explained further in this chapter. |  |
| While you can draw using a 2 button mouse, having 3 buttons is more convenient. A pointing device or mouse having more than 3 buttons is very useful in ARRIS, provided that the Windows driver for the pointing device can be set so that the functions on the extra buttons are set by ARRIS. A mouse with a scroll wheel as the middle button may be used, however the scroll wheel itself is not currently supported and has no use in ARRIS. | |
Graphic Interface (Menu) Mouse Button Selection
| When the cursor is over the Graphic User Interface (menus), a mouse button selection will select the button under the cursor. The selection function depends on the mouse button used. The menu selection functions are shown in the diagram to the right. |  |
Display Window Mouse Button Selection
When the cursor is over the Graphic Display Window, a mouse button selection will select or place a point, or select an entity. The selection or placement functions are described in the diagram below.
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The left mouse button is used extensively for display window selection and is context sensitive. When drawing, a left mouse click will place a new point in the database at the location of the cursor with respect to the XY Forcing setting. Refer to the XY Forcing discussion in the Important Concepts chapter. When ARRIS is prompting to select an entity, the entity may be selected with a left click anywhere on the graphic display of the entity. With no command running, a left click selection may be used to select and highlight an entity to match parameters or copy or edit using the Select Entity feature. Refer to the discussion on Select Entity in the Graphic User Interface chapter of this manual. |
When the cursor is over the graphic display window, the mouse button functions by default duplicate the F1, F11, and F3 Function Key functions for the left, middle, and right mouse buttons respectively. The mouse buttons may be customized to duplicate any function key.
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