mySewnet Embroidery Terms and Conventions

On-screen pointers

The mouse pointer is most commonly shown as an arrow

on the screen.

If it is positioned over a text box it changes to an I-bar

and you can type, such as the Edit Notes dialog box.

If Zoom To Rectangle

, or Zoom In

in a dialog box, is chosen the Zoom In pointer

appears. If Zoom Out

is chosen in a dialog box, the Zoom Out pointer

appears. When zoomed in if the Pan feature is used to move around the screen, the Pan cursor

appears.

The Box Select pointer

, Freehand Select pointer

or Point Select pointer

appears when the associated Select function is chosen. Add to a selection with the Add to Selection

pointer, and remove items from a selection with the Remove from Selection

pointer.

There are several pointers indicating functions in the selection box. The Rotate pointer

appears when the mouse pointer is over the Rotate handle

, or the rounded rotate part of the Fabric handle

. The cross-hair pointer

appears when the mouse is over the center of rotation

The diagonal double-headed arrow

pointer appears when the mouse pointer is over a square corner handle

. The horizontal double-headed arrow

pointer appears when the mouse pointer is over the Flip Horizontal handle

. The vertical double-headed arrow

pointer appears when the mouse pointer is over the Flip Vertical handle

. The pointer becomes a four-headed arrow

when it is over the selection box for one or more embroideries, when Move and Rotate Background

is selected, or when the square move fabric part of the Fabric handle

is selected.

The selection box handles are blue if in resize mode (density retained when resized), white in scale mode (stitch count retained when resized), and green for lettering, SuperDesigns and Frames or Flourishes, and light green for Monograms before they are fixed as embroideries.

The Measure pointer