Right mouse button menus
- Click the right mouse button on one or more nodes, a diagram background, or in other windows to get a menu of useful commands. The list of commands depends on the context. This menu is what you get when you right-click a node. {| class="wikitable" | rowspan="50" |
! style="width: 130px;" | Menu item ! Description |- |Undo |Undoes your last action. “Can’t Undo” appears in this location if an undo is not possible. |- |Cut |Cuts the selected text, node(s), or table cells into the clipboard temporarily for pasting. |- |Copy |Copies the selected text, node(s), graph, or table cells into the clipboard temporarily for pasting. See “Copying and pasting” on page 334. |- |Paste |Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point in a text, diagram, or table, or replaces the current selection. See “Copying and pasting” on page 334. |- |Select All |Selects all the text in an attribute field, nodes in a diagram, or cells in a table. |- |Duplicate Nodes |Duplicates the selected nodes onto the same diagram. See “Duplicate nodes” on page 47. |- |Copy Diagram |When a Diagram window is active, copies a picture of the diagram for pasting into a graphics application. See “Copying and pasting” on page 334. |- |Preferences |Opens the Preferences dialog (page 54) to examine or change various options. |- |Edit Definition |Opens the appropriate view for editing the definition of the selected variable. If the variable is defined as a distribution or sequence, the Object Finder opens. If it is defined as a table or probability table, its edit table window opens. Otherwise, an Object window or Attribute panel opens, depending on the Edit attributes setting in the Preferences dialog (page 54). |- |Show Result |Opens a Result window for the selected object. See “The Result window” on page 26. |- |Bring to Front |Brings the selected object(s) to the front of the drawing order so that if the object(s) overlap any other elements, the object is visible. This menu option appears only when you right-click one or more nodes. This is the only way to move some nodes in front of others. |- |Send to Back |Sends the selected object(s) to the back of the drawing order so that the selected object(s) are drawn behind any overlapping elements. This menu option appears only when you right-click one or more nodes. This is the only way to move some nodes behind the others. |- |Align |Opens the Align submenu |- |Make Same Size |Opens the Make Same Size submenu |- |Space Evenly |Opens the Space Evenly submenu |- |Set Diagram Style |Displays a Diagram style dialog to set default arrow displays, node size, and font for this diagram. See “Diagram Style dialog” on page 74. |- |Set Node Style |Displays Node style dialog to set arrow display and font for the selected node(s). See “Node Style dialog” on page 75. |- |Show / Hide Color Palette |Displays the color palette to set the color of the diagram background or of selected nodes. See “Recoloring nodes or background” on page 73. |}
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