mySewnet™ Draw & Paint Terms and Conventions

On-screen pointers

The mouse pointer is most commonly shown as an arrow on the screen. The following pointers are also used:

	I-beam	Used when entering text, e.g. when entering lettering.
	Move	A four-headed arrow is used when the pointer is over the selection box for one or more blocks.
	Zoom To Rectangle	Used to drag an area to zoom in to.
	Adjust/Resize	A diagonal double-headed arrow is used when the pointer is over the square corner handle for a selection box.
	Rotate	Used when the pointer is over the Rotate handle on a selection box.
	Horizontal	A horizontal double-headed arrow is used when the pointer is over the flip horizontal handle on a selection box.
	Vertical	A vertical double-headed arrow is used when the pointer is over the flip vertical handle on a selection box.
	Box Select	The Box Select pointer appears when Box Select is chosen.
	Freehand Select	The Freehand Select pointer appears when Freehand Select is chosen.
	Point Line Select	The Point Line Select pointer appears when Point Line Select is chosen.
	Measure	The Measure pointer appears when the Get Length function is selected.
	Pick Color	The Pick Colors pointer appears when picking colors from a drawing or the background image.
	Cross	The Cross pointer is used to select part of the picture.
	Place Point	The Place Point pointer appears when adding points to a line with the Point Line functions, and when converting Corner points to Curve points.
	Bezier Mode	The Bezier Mode pointer appears when you draw lines with Bezier Draw.
	Convert Points to Corner	The Convert Points to Corner pointer appears when you change the selected point in a Bezier line to a Corner point.
	Adjust Points	When nodes placed by the Freehand functions are adjusted, the pointer becomes a small cross.
	Insert Point	The Insert Point pointer appears when inserting points into an existing object line.
	Remove Point	The Remove Point pointer appears when removing points from an existing object line.
	No Entry	The No Entry pointer appears when the pointer is outside the editing area.