The heart of Filevision IV is the Type and Access menus. These two menus control the various drawing layers, objects and data bases. They determine how each object's action will be performed.
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From the Type menu, Change Layout…, Delete Type and Add Type… all function to modify, add or delete a Type. Adding or Deleting a Type also adds or deletes a drawing layer on the drawing page that matches with the Info page database Type.
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Below the Type menu's control section are the actual names of the Types that have been created by the user. Up to 32 Types are possible. Each Type's database layout is (or can be) unique with up to 255 fields in each of the 32 databases. The check mark next to Townhouse indicates the currently active Type.
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The currently selected Type is displayed as the first item on the Access menu as all actions from the Access menu are per-formed on the selected Type and its objects and records.
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Select the sort field for the currently selected Type.
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Find any partial string or word within the first 22 characters of the sort field.
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Highlight selects and isolates those objects and records stip-ulated. Those drawing page objects that have been high-lighted are also considered selected. Highlighting can also be considered as "Finding", only this type of find can be on any partial string or word in any field and with up to 8,000 characters per field searched. Highlighting is reflected on both the drawing and Info pages. Records found under the highlight criteria are isolated while graphic objects are redrawn with a drop shadow against all other objects faded to grey.
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Hide acts on the graphic objects of the selected Type only. The menu verbs will change to reflect if any indi-vidual objects are selected, i.e. Hide Selected, etc.
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Ignore prevents any graphic object within a Type from being selected by clicking on it with the mouse. This menu item toggles to Activate.
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Replaces all graphic objects that may have been hidden while using the Show/Hide functions.
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Cancels all Highlighting actions from the above menu items.
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Keyboard equivalent to the Next and Prev buttons used to select the appropriate record or graphic object.
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Keyboard equivalent to the Drawing and Info buttons which are used to toggle between the drawing page and Info page.
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Every record has an automa-tic link field that is used to enter the name of a File-vision IV file to link to if necessary. By clicking on the Link button, double-clicking on the graphic object, or selecting the Link menu item or command key equivalent, the link file will be loaded.