This is a description of the parts of an Opal document window.
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1. Toolbar 2. Search field 3. Topics 4. View magnification popup 5. Status bar |
The Opal document window toolbar is a standard Mac OS X toolbar, which means that you can perform the usual operations on it:
You can hide or show the toolbar by clicking the “lozenge” button in the upper right corner. Alternatively, choose View > Hide/Show Toolbar.
You can view the icons as text, as icons, or as both; and you can view them in large or small size. Control-click the toolbar to bring up the contextual menu where you set these options.
You can customize the contents of the toolbar. To do so, choose View > Customize Toolbar (or use the toolbar’s contextual menu). You are presented with a dialog of icons that you can drag into the toolbar. You can also drag items out of the toolbar. You can also make your icon view settings here.
The toolbar settings for one document window apply to all document windows, until you change them again.
The Search field is used to implement the Edit > Find > Search command. By typing in the Search field, you can filter your view of a document so that only topics containing your specified text are shown.
The editable document area displays the topics of your outline. Topics are marked with a symbol at the left side. (This symbol is called the topic’s triangle throughout this documentation, even though sometimes it isn’t a triangle.) These symbols reflect the state of the outline and whether or not the topic has daughters:
right-facing empty triangle |
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topic without daughters |
right-facing filled triangle |
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topic with daughters, collapsed |
down-facing triangle |
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topic with daughters, expanded |
grey triangle |
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topic in filtered view |
empty circle |
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focused topic without daughters |
filled circle |
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focused topic with daughters |
empty square |
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single ancestress without daughters |
filled square |
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single ancestress with daughters |
The popup menu at the lower left of the window changes the magnification of the outline display. This is not the same as merely changing the font size. With view magnification, everything in the content area is enlarged or reduced — the size of the text, the size of the triangles, the size of pictures — as if you were moving your face closer to the screen or further away from it.
You can achieve the same effect by choosing from the View > Zoom menu.
The status bar displays messages about what’s being displayed in the document window. Normally it shows how many topics your outline contains. But it also informs you whether you are viewing the outline in a focused or filtered way, by prefixing the word “Filtered” or “Focused” before the number of topics; and in that case, the number of topics is the number of topics in the filtered or focused view, not the number of topics in the outline as a whole.