Mouse Gestures in Image Editor

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The raster editor window in RealWorld Designer applications 2007.1 and later can be configured to execute operations when a mouse gesture is recognized.

[edit] Tutorial video

[edit] Performing mouse gesture

Place your mouse over the raster image editor and press the right mouse button. With the button pressed, follow the path of the chosen gesture. While you move the mouse with right button down, the editor will draw a red trail to help you perform the gesture correctly. The simplest gestures are strait moves to the left, right, up or down. For example the left gesture is by default assigned to the Undo command.

Important: mouse gestures are not images, you must follow the given path, not just draw the same image.

[edit] Configuring mouse gestures

Right-click in the raster editor and select Configure mouse gestures from the context menu to display the configuration dialog.

The left side of the dialog shows the list of supported gestures and their schematic drawing. When you select a gesture, the configuration of the operation assigned to that gesture is displayed on th right side of the window. You can see that the "Up-Right" gesture is configured to rotate the image right by 90 degrees. Many gestures are unassigned and you are free to configure them to you often used commands.

Although the dialog will allow you to assign any operation, only operations working with images will actually have any effect. This is because the operations are executed by the raster editor and it can only access the currently selected image (and not for example other frames in an animated cursor or another compound document type).