Customizing Toolbar Button Behavior

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For each of the seven toolbar buttons that select drawing tools (the seven on the left), you can control:

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whether the tool remains selected after you use it,

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whether the dialog appears each time you press the button, and

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whether the changes you make will become the defaults the next time you run ChartOverlay.

If you choose Leave Toolbar Button Depressed in a drawing tool dialog, you will remain in the selected mode after you draw an object of that type. The toolbar button will remain in the down position. If you do not check this item, you will need to press one of the drawing tool buttons each time you want to draw something. This feature is useful when you want to draw several items of the same type. Pressing any other drawing tool button will pop the current button up.

If you check Don't Show this Dialog Every Time in a drawing tool dialog, pressing the corresponding button will not bring up the dialog. Your settings will remain the same as last time. If you want to see the dialog, hold down the ctrl key while pressing the button. You can also select an item of the type whose dialog you want to see and the Edit it (button or menu); you may have to draw one first.

When you open a drawing tool dialog and change its values, those values remain in effect until you change them or until you restart the program. If you check Make These Values the Startup Defaults, the values you set will be saved when you Exit the program and they will be restored when you start it again.