Surface Menu
Main documentation page: 3. IQ Surface
- Background Color: Surface background color
- Move Linked Items: If checked, linked items move as a group
- Hide Linked Items on Collapse: Sub-items always hide when collapsing items. This controls if linked items also collapse
Item
- Auto-Size: If unchecked, item can be resized
- Padding: When Auto-Size is On, sets the padding around the text
- Text Alignment: Select from a list
- Text Fore Color: Uses the ItemForeColor field
- Back Color: Uses the ItemColor field
- Border Color: Item box border color. Internal to the Surface (not available as field)
Link
- Link Tasks...: Select 2 or more items to link them. If only one is selected, a dialog will list of possible items to link to
- Delete Link
- Link Line Type: Select from a list
- Link Shape: Select from a list
- Link Color
- Link Text: Extra label that can be shown on link
- Show Hidden Items: When deleting items, you can choose to not delete but simply hide from the Surface. This command shows hidden items
The difference between removing an item and hiding is that hidden items retain their Surface specific properties (size, border color, link type, etc)