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Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide

Showing, Hiding, and Removing Modules

For a small project you may always want to show all modules. For a large project with many modules you may want to show only one or two modules at a time. Use the Project Organizer to show and hide modules, and to remove modules from projects. The Project Organizer displays icons for all of the modules that comprise a project. In the Project Organizer you can display or hide the interfaces for selected modules and you can remove modules from a project.

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To Show a Hidden Module

  1. Display the Project Organizer by choosing Project Organizer from the File menu of the App Builder primary window.

  2. Double-click the module icons in the module array of the Project Organizer that you want to show.

    Or, select the module icons and choose Show from the Module menu.

    The user interfaces for the selected modules will be displayed.

    Note -

    If a module you want to show is in a different project, you will first have to open the other project. See "To Open an Existing Project" for instructions.

To Hide a Shown Module

To hide a module that is displayed (to clean up the workspace so that you can more easily work on another module, for instance):

  1. Display the Project Organizer by choosing Project Organizer from the File menu of the App Builder primary window.

  2. Select the modules in the module array that you want to hide.

    Select one module by clicking mouse button 1 on it. To add to the selection click mouse button 2 on other modules. To select a number of adjacent modules drag-select with mouse button 1 or mouse button 2, starting above and to the left of the first module to be selected.

  3. Choose Hide from the Module menu.

    The user interfaces for the selected modules will be hidden.

To Remove a Module from a Project

When you remove a module from the current project, the module file will still exist in the project folder, but it will no longer be part of the project. The module file name will be removed from the project file (.bip suffix) the next time the project is saved. With the appropriate project open, do the following to remove one or more modules from the project.

  1. Display the Project Organizer by choosing Project Organizer from the File menu of the App Builder primary window.

  2. Select the modules in the module array that you want to remove.

  3. Choose Remove from the Module menu of the Project Organizer.