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EazyDraw New Drawings
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The New Drawings popup menu provides control over the size, position, and other aspects of new blank drawings. You create a New drawing using the New command on the main file menu.

Three predefined default forms are provided. Other methods allow more control over the presentation of New Drawings.

The settings here control the position of the window, the size of the window, the zoom extent of the drawing, the scroll center of the drawing, the state of the Graphic Details Inspector (open or closed), and the state of the Layers Inspector (open or closed).

The Default setting provides a smaller window positioned towards the upper left of the screen. This setting will offset successive new drawings, down and to the left a small amount. The successive offsets prevent the confusion that can happen if all new drawings are placed exactly on top of one another.

The Wide and Full Screen settings create the new blank drawing with different, larger sizes. These settings place all New drawings in exactly the same positions and sizes, no stacking of successive new drawings. This can be useful if you have your desktop and palettes arranged in a specific manner, the drawings always appear in their own space and don't move into the space of other components on the desk top.

If a second or third screen are available these selections are enabled. In these cases the new drawing will be placed on the specified screen - occupying nearly the full screen.

The Last Quit setting provides an automatic scenario. In this case, the top window of the last Quit of EazyDraw is saved as a master for positioning new drawing. This method will generally follow your work patterns and intelligently place and size the new drawing - right where it should be, in most cases.

The Current setting provides full user control of the definition of the starting position and size of a new drawing. In this case, current top window, at the time the popup menu is clicked on this setting, is saved as a master for positioning new drawing. In this case start by carefully positioning the top window, select the Zoom amount, the scrolled center, and whether or not the Graphic Details and Layers Inspectors are open. Then open the Preferences panel, then click and select "Current" on the New Drawings popup menu. Then click the "Set" button, this will read and save the configuration.

The "View" submenu provides control over the initial view position of the new drawing. Top left is the default, this setting will cause the top left corner of the full drawing to be shown at the top left of the new drawing window; i.e. the scroller bars are at the full left and full top position. This setting has no effect when the "Current" or "Last Quit" option is chosen, in this case the definition drawing will determine the actual drawing view position.

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Note that just selecting the Current item on the popup menu will not read and set the configuration, the Set button needs to be clicked to actually change the applicable configuration. If setting the popup menu item would automatically change the configuration, there would be no way to examine the popup menu and NOT change your configuration conditions - a bad situation.

The Set button is dimmed unless the popup menu is set on Current. The other settings are safely selected with the popup menu, no need for a second explicit Set action.

The Wide and Full Screen selections determine the window size relative to the size of the Main Screen.