Window types

 

There are five major types of canvas windows (in decreasing order of flexibility and consistency):

• general
• projection,
• overview,
• scratch (clipboard), and
• SHriMP.

Also, there are four types of general canvas windows:

• children,
• parents,
• neighbors, and
• selection.

Do not confuse these canvas window types with the other specialized dialogs, alerts, and windows used in rigiedit.

The title bar of a canvas window indicates its type, its numeric ID (optional), its label, and whether it is active (optional).

Note: Text editor windows may be spawned by rigiedit to display report, annotation, or source data; these windows are controlled by processes that are independent of rigiedit\ and do not respond to actions chosen from the Window menu.