# Using the Palette Editor

The palette editor provides a fast and easy to use drag and drop facility for creating and editing palettes, toolbars etc. A palette is usually attached to the side of your window (but is sometimes a separate window) and contains an array of buttons. The face of each button can contain a bitmap icon or show a color. Separator objects can be added to the palettes to produce space between groups of buttons.

You can define the number of columns or rows that the palette contains. For palettes attached to the left and right sides of the window, or floating palettes, the number of columns is specified. For palette glued to the top or bottom window edges the number of rows is used.

Palette buttons and separators are created and added to the palette via the mode palette on the left hand side of the edit window. To create a palette button, first select the “button” icon from the mode palette. Position the pointer over where in the palette you want the buttons to go, and click the mouse. The palette will automatically resize as needed to fit the buttons it contains. Its OK to drop a button outside of the palette in order to make it bigger.

The actual palette your working on can be displayed and tested using the “Layout/Show palette” option. Double click on the “-“ in the header bar of the palette test window to make it go away.

See Also

Selecting and Moving (Rearrangement) of Palette Buttons

Cut, Copy, and Paste Applied to Palette Buttons and Separators

Editing the Palette

Editing a Palette Button Editing Palette Separators