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Drawer Position

Each EazyDraw drawing window has two associated drawers, the Graphic Details drawer and the Layers drawer. They open on either the left side or right side of the drawing window. The particular side used to display each drawer can is determined in an automatic fashion, based on window position on the desktop and previous usage. In many cases explicit specification of a particular side (left or right) for one or both of these inspection drawers is required. This submenu provides a means of specifying this behavior.

This submenu provides short cut command keys that can be very useful for opening and closing the drawers in a particular fashion.

The check marks on this submenu do not indicate the open or close state of the associated drawer. They indicated the position that will be used to display the drawer when it is opened.

The top three menu entries control the behavior of the Layers drawer and the lower three entries relate to the Graphic Details drawer.

Select the Auto position to leave the drawer position decision to EazyDraw's discretion. In this case drawers will open on opposite sides of the window. This enables simultaneous inspection of both drawers. When opening only one drawer, the display screen's edge is checked relative to the window position to determine the best side to of the window for the drawer position.

Select Right or Left to force the associated drawer to open on this side of the drawing window. If the same side is selected for both drawers, an open drawer will be closed to honor a request to open the alternate drawer.

Selecting one of these menu items will set the opening side preference and open (or close) the associated drawer. The normal menu selections and tool bar buttons may be used to open and close the drawers.

The preference selections of these menu items are associated with each drawing document. If all windows are closed, the selections will represent and control the default user preferences for drawer position. If a certain arrangement is desired for all drawings, close all drawings, make the appropriate selections. Then don't make any further changes from this submenu, all new drawings will be created with the default settings. Use of the normal menu or tool bar controls will have no affect on these settings.