Introduction to PowerBuilder

Selecting Multiple Controls

There are two ways in selecting more than one control. The first method involves holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on the controls you require or secondly you can click on the window and drag a box ( as shown in the picture below ) to surround all the controls you want to select.

The above screen-shot is an example for selecting multiple controls. Note that for a control to be selected, it needn't be completely enclosed by the box.

When you select a control, the corners turn black to indicate that it is selected and you can then affect any changes against it. This holds true for multiple control selections, but the actions you can perform against such selections are less.

Some of the actions you can perform against a multiple control selection include:

	Moving them.
	Aligning them, based on axis.
	Resizing them, based on the size of one control.
	Spacing them, based on the current spacing between the controls.

If you have any problem in selecting multiple controls, click on the projector icon, for a demo (movie.gif).

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