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[231c]The Inspector panel lets you examine and modify the attributes of various selected objects. It is used mainly with slide views, though it can also be used with attachments in outline views. (See Chapter 13 for more on attachments.)
[111c]To raise the panel, click the Inspector button of a slide view window, or choose Inspector from the Tools menu.
[173c]The contents of the Inspector panel change to reflect the kinds of attributes you choose to view, and what kinds of objects you select. Each set of controls is an inspector.
[235c]Use the pop-up button at the top of the Inspector panel to choose between three kinds of inspectors: Attributes, Size, and Color. The latter two, Size and Color, always display the same standard inspectors,which work with most objects.
[309c]There are several Attributes inspectors, however. For example, if you select a slide you will see the Slide inspector, which lets you control how a slide will behave when a Play button is clicked. If you select a symbol on a slide (like a circle), the Symbol inspector will let you change the symbol's shape.
[38c]The Inspector Panel and the Inspectors
[216c]Like most menu commands, the three items in the Inspector panel's pop-up button have keyboard alternatives. Typing Command-7 is the same as choosing Attributes from the pop-up; Command-8, Size; and Command-9, Color.
[99c]Type Command-0 (zero) to raise the Inspector panel without choosing a particular type of inspector.
[21c]Keyboard Alternatives
[254c]The controls on inspectors behave a little bit differently than usual when you select several objects with different values (for example, when you select several symbols with different colors). You'll also see this behavior on rulers, and the Font panel.
[214c]If you see a horizontal dash across a check box, some selected items have the attribute in question set, and others don't. You'll see this in the Color inspector if some selected symbols are filled and some aren't.
[68c]Normally, one (and only one) of a set of radio buttons is selected.
[199c]However, if selected objects have different values, no button will be selected. The Attachments inspector displays this behavior when some selected attachments are shown as icons, and some as images.
[213c]When selected objects would display several values in a pop-up button, its name will change to "Multiple," as pictured here. The ruler's Label button behaves this way when selected headlines have different labels.
[194c]Color wells display the word "Multiple," as pictured here, when selected objects feature different colors. To see this, select symbols with different fill colors and look at the Color inspector.
[307c]To see the Attachment inspector, choose Attributes from the Inspector panel's pop-up button, and select an attachment. Attachments are references to other files from within a Concurrence document. You'll see them as images and as file icons in slides and outlines. They are described in depth in Chapter 13.
[135c]Attachments are created by dragging file icons into Concurrence windows, or by pasting graphical selections copied from other programs.
[262c]The icon of the file associated with an attachment appears in a well in the inspector. You can drag this icon to any window that accepts file icons. You can also double-click the icon to open it, just as if you had opened a similar icon in the Workspace Manager.
[177c]There are three forms an attachment can take: Absolute Link, Relative Link, and Copy. Choose between these with the buttons in the Reference section of the Attachment inspector.
Attachment Inspector
[305c]An absolute reference identifies a file precisely in the file system hierarchy, regardless of the location of the Concurrence file in which the link is defined. Absolute references are useful for attaching files that will never move, even if the Concurrence file in which the attachment is held does move.
Absolute Link
[282c]A relative reference identifies a file relative to the one in which an attachment is defined. Relative links are useful when sending out a Concurrence document to a foreign or unknown network, along with, for example, a folder containing all the links to which the document refers.
Relative Link
[155c]Select Copy to copy an attached file directly into a Concurrence document. The attachment won't actually be copied until you next choose the Save command.
[195c]Once an attachment has been copied (that is, once you choose the Copy button and save), you will not be able to select the other two reference buttons. A copy cannot be made absolute or relative.
[251c]Concurrence is able to display the contents of some image file formats, including EPS files, TIFF files, and Adobe Illustrator files. Use the Show As buttons to determine whether an attachment is displayed as a file icon, or (if possible) as an image.
[108c]To see the Slide inspector, choose Attributes from the Inspector panel's pop-up button, and select a slide.
[263c]The Slide inspector mainly lets you establish the behavior of a slide during a slide show (that is, when a Play button has been clicked). This subject is covered in more depth in the Play panel section of Chapter 24, Tools, and in Chapter 11, Playing Slide Shows.
[297c]The Transition area lets you select the effect to use when segueing from one slide to another during a slide show. Choose the type of transition, like Wipe or Scroll, from the pop-up button. Most transitions can be modified slightly with controls that will appear to the right of the sample slide.
[186c]When you choose a transition, you'll see it performed with sample slides A and B in the inspector's preview area. Clicking the preview area will also demonstrate the selected transition.
The Delay Before Showing Next Slide text field lets you control how long a slide will be displayed during an automatic slide show. If you have selected the Manual play button of the Play panel, this value is ignored.
[201c]To skip a slide during a slide show or when printing, select the Skip This Slide checkbox. If a slide is to be skipped during presentation, no number will be shown on its minislide in the slide sorter.
[248c]Use the Title Visible and Body Visible check boxes to toggle the display of title and body boxes. For example, if you'd like to modify a slide such that its body text is visible, but the title text box is hidden, select the Title Visible check box.
[121c]To add Sound to a slide, click the Sound button. This will display the Sound inspector, described on the following pages.
[164c]To see the Sound inspector, choose Attributes from the Inspector panel's pop-up button, and select a slide. The Slide inspector will appear. Click its Sound button.
[116c]You can also raise the Sound inspector by clicking a Sound icon in the frame of a minislide (see the picture below).
The Sound inspector lets you play, edit and, if your computer has a microphone, record the sound attached to a slide. A slide's sound is normally played when the slide is displayed during a slide show. For more on this see Chapter 11, Playing Slide Shows, and read about the Play panel in Chapter 24, Tools.
Use the inspector's Play, Pause, Stop and Record buttons just like you'd use a tape recorder to record and play back a sound. You can also edit the displayed sound by selecting portions of it and using the Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete commands from the Edit menu.
[206c]When you record a sound for a slide, its minislide will display a Sound icon, as pictured below. This icon will disappear if you erase the sound, whether with the Erase button or the Cut or Delete commands.
[162c]To see the Symbol inspector, choose Attributes from the Inspector panel's pop-up button, and select a symbol. See Chapter 10, Editing Slides, for more on symbols.
To set the shape of selected symbols, click one of the six buttons on the Symbol inspector. The selected symbols will change shape, but they will maintain their current sizes, positions, colors, etc.
[287c]To see the Size inspector, choose Size from the Inspector panel's pop-up button, and select a symbol, free text box, attachment or slide. You can use the Size inspector to exactly position and resize these objects. See Chapter 10, Editing Slides, for more on symbols and free text boxes.
[281c]To modify the position of an item on a slide type the desired coordinates into the X and Y fields in the Position section. The lower left corner of a slide is the 0,0 point. Thus, moving your image to the right increases its X position, while moving it up increases its Y position.
[156c]Similarly, to modify the dimension of your selection, enter values in the Width and Height fields. These units are pixels, which are 72 to the printed inch.
[161c]To increase or decrease the thickness of a line, or the frame of a symbol or slide, use the Thickness slider, or type a number into the Thickness field directly.
For attachments being displayed as images, the Resize to Natural Proportions and Resize to Original Size buttons provide convenient resizing capabilities. (For more on attachments, see the Attachments inspector, above, and Chapter 13.)
[371c]Use the Resize to Natural Proportions button to return an image to the proportions, or aspect ratio, in which it initially appeared within the Concurrence document. This allows you to freely resize an image to an approximate size, then have it returned to its correct proportions. Note also that holding the Alt key while resizing an image will preserve its aspect ratio.
[144c]Similarly, use the Resize to Original Size button to return an image to the size in which it initially appeared within the Concurrence document.
[377c]To see the Color inspector, choose Color from the Inspector panel's pop-up button, and select a symbol, attachment or slide. You can use the Color inspector to modify the colors of symbols, lines, or slide backgrounds. (Note that the color of text is set with the Font panel, as described in Chapter 15, Document.) See Chapter 10, Editing Slides, for more on symbols and lines.
To set the shadow, border or fill color of a selected item, use the Shadow, Border or Fill color wells. Refer to the introductory documentation that came with your computer for more on the Color panel.
[97c]You may toggle the use of Shadow, Border or Fill colors by clicking their respective check boxes.
[253c]To give a selected slide or symbol a color grade (graded fill), use the Fill pop-up button to select an option other than Solid. You'll see two color wells in the Fill area. Color grades will range from one to the other of the colors set in these wells.
[223c]When you choose different fill effects, you'll see different sets of buttons in the Fill area (or none, if you've chosen a solid fill). These let you choose between variations of the fill effect selected in the Fill pop-up.
\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i\ul0\fs28 You can also raise the Sound inspector by clicking a Sound icon in the frame of a minislide (see the picture below).
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\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i\ul0\fs28 Click the Sound icon on the right of a minislide to inspect the sound. Double-click to hear it.
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