OPI Editor

Introduction

When you double click an .opi file from the Navigator, the file will be opened by OPI Editor by default. If it's not, you can still open an .opi file with OPI Editor by right clicking the file and choose Open With->OPI Editor.

The OPI Editor is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. It has most of the modern editing features which can facilitate your OPI editing:

All these features can be easily access from the toolbar or context menu.

Widgets Palette

The Widgets Palette hosts all the widget entries. Click the widget on the palette and then click or drag a rectangle in the editing area will create a widget on the display.

The Palette can be hidden or drag to another side of the display. When the palette is hidden, you can hover the mouse over the palette sash to temporarily show the palette.

Palette

Editing Widgets

Select Widgets

Simply clicking on a widget will select the widget. Press Ctrl or Shift to select more widgets.

Change Widget Properties

The Properties of selected widget or the common properties of multiple selected widgets can be set from the Property Sheet directly.

Move Widgets

Simply drag the widgets to move them.

Resize Widgets

Simply drag the border of the selected widgets to resize them. Press [.] dot to enable the movement of widgets with the arrow keys.

Clone Widgets

Press Ctrl and drag the widgets to clone them.

The other functions such as copy, paste, delete, undo/redo can be easily accessed from the toolbar or context menu.

Use Guide

Guide is very useful when you are arranging or moving widgets.

  1. Click Show Ruler button on the toolbar to show the ruler in editor.
  2. Click the ruler will create a guide.
  3. Drag the widget close to the guide then the guide line will become to red which means the widget has been attached to the guide
  4. Move the guide will move all the widgets attached to it
  5. Click a guide and press delete will delete the guide