Choose View>View Organizer to open, rearrange, copy or delete views. When you first open it, it shows a list of the views in the database. You can switch back and forth between listing forms and procedures.
Double click to open any view.
To change the position of a view in the View menu, simply drag it. If this is a procedure this will also change its position in the Action Menu.
If there are dozens or hundreds of views it can be tedious to drag a view a long way, for example from bottom to top. To make this easier, Panorama allows you to open a second View Organizer window (simply choose View>View Organizer again) and drag between them to rearrange.
To delete a view, drag it into the trash can.
The view is immediately removed from the database, but you can get it back (you might think you could get it back with Undo, but Undo does not work in the View Organizer wizard). To view deleted views, click on the trash can icon. This opens the Trash window. You can drag views from the Trash window back into the database.
Deleted views stay in the trash until you empty the trash or close Panorama.
To make a copy of a view within the same database, right click on the view and choose Duplicate from the pop-up menu.
Now you can open the duplicate view and rename it to whatever name you want.
To copy a form or procedure from one database to another, open a View Organizer for each database (using View>View Organizer). Then you can simply drag views across to copy them.
If a form or procedure already exists in a database, dragging a like-named view replaces it. This can be useful for updating a second database with changes made to the first.
Library database are usually hidden, but you can check the Include Libraries option if you want to work with them.
When this option is checked the pop-up menu at the top of the window will list all available library databases, in addition to the normally visible databases.
Panorama comes with over a dozen built in libary databases that Panorama relies on for operation. You can also build one or more of your own custom library databases. If these databases are placed in the
~/Library/Application Support/PanoramaX/Libraries
folder, Panorama will automatically load them when launching Panorama, and add any custom statements, functions and hotkeys contained in the databases to Panorama automatically.
You can of course open this folder using the Finder, but the View Organizer gives you a shortcut to do this:
The View Organizer also has a menu command to create a library database for you. This will automatically create an empty database with your user name in the correct spot. Or, if the database has already been created, it will open it again.
To create a custom statement, simply create a procedure with all upper case letters.
To avoid conflicts with future versions of Panorama it’s best to choose statement names that are unlikely to be used by Panorama itself. For example, MYCHIME
or BIGCHIME
might be a safer choice than CHIME
. If a future version of Panorama includes a statement with the same name as your statement then your statement will stop working (you’ll have to rename your statement and locate and change every place where you have used it).
Once you’ve written your custom statement, go back to the View Organizer and choose Register Funtions and Libraries from the Libraries menu. This allows you to start using your new custom statement immediately, without having to quit and relaunch Panorama. In this case, the new chime statement can now be used anywhere on your code (of course you must make sure the specified sound file is placed in the specified folder).
chime
To learn more about working with custom statements, see Custom Statements.
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Version | Status | Notes |
10.0 | New | New in this version. |