mySewnet Digitizing Terms and Conventions
The 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 in the Design Panel.
If Zoom To Rectangle
is chosen, the Zoom In pointer 
appears. If the Pan feature is used to move around the screen, the Pan cursor 
appears. If Get Length
is chosen the Measure pointer
appears.
In the ExpressDesign Wizard Rotate and Crop Picture page, the pointer becomes a double-headed arrow 
when you move the crop lines or a four-headed arrow 
when you move the crop area. Also, for an Express Embroidery, the pointer becomes an eyedropper 
to pick colors from a picture for thread colors or pick a background color.
In the Freehand Create tab, if the Freehand Create functions are used the pointer becomes a pen 
.
In the Point Create tab, if the Point Create functions are chosen the pointer becomes a circle 
, and in Bezier Mode when lines are drawn the pointer becomes a Bezier Mode pointer 
. In Bezier Mode, when points are converted to Symmetric the pointer becomes the Convert Points to Symmetric pointer 
, when points are converted to Smooth the pointer becomes the Convert Points to Smooth pointer 
, and when points are converted to Corner points the pointer becomes the Convert Points to Corner pointer 
.
When node points on Point Lines or Bezier Lines are adjusted, or the Fabric handle 
is used to adjust a fabric, the pointer becomes a small cross 
(a Move pointer).
If Insert ExpressDesign
is chosen, the Draw Rectangle pointer 
appears.
When a Pick Color
function is selected, the eyedropper pointer 
appears.
The Box Select pointer 
, Freehand Select pointer 
or Point Select pointer 
appears when the associated Select function is chosen.
There are several pointers indicating functions in the selection box. The Rotate pointer
appears when the mouse pointer is over the Rotate 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 
(a move pointer) when it is over a selection box.
The Create Cursor 
is not a mouse pointer, but is a marker that shows the position where the next object will be added if it is at the end of the design. These cursors only appear when at least one object has been digitized on the current character or SuperDesign, and one of the Create tools is selected.
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When objects will be added at the end of the design, the cursor is pink
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When objects are to be inserted (i.e. the selected object is not the last object in the design), the marker showing the final point of the selected object is orange
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When objects are to be inserted, a blue marker
shows the position of the first point in the next object in the design.