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If you select a single form component in the list of form components, you can
edit its properties on the right side.
When the configuration area is focused, you can transfer the focus back to the list of form components
with the keyboard by pressing ALT-F1 .
The list of form components provides the following actions in the toolbar on the right that operate on the
current selection. You can also access these actions from the context menu or use the associated keyboard
shortcuts.
- Delete
All selected form components will be deleted after a confirmation dialog when invoking the
[Delete] action. The deleted
form components cannot be restored.
- Rename
After you add a form component, the list of form components shows it with its
default name. This is often enough, however, if you have multiple instances of the
same form component alongside, a custom name makes it easier to distinguish these
instances. You can assign a custom name to each form component with the
[Rename] action.
The default name is still displayed in brackets after the custom name. To revert to the
default, just enter an empty custom name in the rename dialog.
- Comment
By default, form components have no comments associated with them.
You can add comments to selected form components with the
[Add Comments] action.
When a comment is added, the affected form components will receive a "Comments" tab.
After adding a comment to a single form component, the comment area is focused automatically.
Likewise, you can remove comments from one or more form components with the
[Remove Comments] action.
In order to visit all comments, you can use the [Show next comment] and
[Show previous comment] actions. These actions will focus the comment area automatically
and wrap around if no further comments can be found.
- Disable
In order to "comment out" form components, you can use the
[Disable] action. The
configuration of the disabled form components will not be displayed, their
entries in the list of form components will be shown in gray and they will not be checked
for errors when the project is built.
- Copy and paste
install4j offers an inter-process clipboard for form components. You can
[Cut] or
[Copy]
form components to the clipboard and
[Paste] them in the same or a different instance
of install4j. Note that references to launchers or references to files in the distribution tree might
not be valid after pasting to a different project.
Pasted form components are appended to the end of the list of form components.
- Reorder
If your selection is a single contiguous interval, you can move the entire block
up or
down in the list.
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