Working with Widgets

 

Deleting a Widget

1. Open the widget side-panel by clicking on the "Widgets" button.
2. Click the widget you wish to delete. Multiple selection can be done by clicking and dragging or holding Ctrl and clicking on multiple widgets.
3. Click the delete button at the bottom of the side-panel or simply press Delete on the keyboard to remove the widget from that view.

Selecting a Widget(s)

When working with widgets, it is important to note that they can only be edited or deleted when the Widgets side-panel is open.

If the side-panel is not open, interactions will be limited to items only.

1. With the side-panel open, click on a widget to select it.
   1. A dashed border will appear around the widget, indicating that it is selected.
2. Alternatively, you can use the left and right navigation arrows within the side-panel to cycle through all widgets in the view and locate the desired one.

    

 

As mentioned previously, more than one widget can be selected; either click and drag across the view to select multiple widgets (the widgets side-panel must be active) or hold control and click on each one in turn.

 

Note: Singular selecting using Control and clicking is currently only supported on the following views; Grid, Layer, Timeline, Wall and Compare

 

When multiple widgets are selected, additional alignment options are presented in the widget side-panel, to help you lay out the widgets with regular spacing and relative to the screen or within/across the collection of widgets, and buttons are displayed for Copy, Cut and Paste.

 

 

 

Many – but not all - editing options (such as text formatting and style, object background color etc.) can be carried out on multiple selected widgets.

Positioning and Resizing a Widget

The widget can be dragged and resized interactively within the view. However, all other editing operations are carried out through the widget side panel.

 

The strip at the bottom of the widget side-panel allows you to edit the precise X and Y location of a widget on the view, and / or the width and height of the widget. Widgets are created with width and height settings of 20% and 10% respectively, relative to the size of the view area.

 

To edit any of these values manually, you can use the small edit pencil on the positioning and sizing bar, and you can then alter the values as shown below.

 Copying and Pasting Widgets

Individual widgets can be copied (Ctrl-C), cut (Ctrl-X) and pasted (Ctrl-V) using standard Windows keys.

For collections, these operations can be performed using buttons within the widgets side-panel.

• These operations use the SharpCloud clipboard
  • Widgets cannot be copied out to other applications.
  • Objects remain in the SharpCloud clipboard until you sign out of your session.

Note: Widgets in each layer (foreground/background) are overlaid on the screen in order of their creation.

To move an existing widget to the front, you can cut (Ctrl + X) and paste it back into the view.

Toggling the display of Widgets and Items

The Foreground, Items and Background buttons allow you to temporarily suppress the display of widgets and items whilst the widgets side-panel is open. However, when you close the side-panel, all widgets and items for the view are automatically displayed.

Note:

1. In this context, Background refers to the lowest widget layer. This is distinct from the view background, which is configured via View Options > Background. All widget layers (foreground, background, and items) are positioned above the view background.
2. To move or resize background widgets, first hide the foreground and items layers using the controls at the top of the panel. This prevents interference when selecting or dragging elements.