Gobe Productive User's Guide - The ToolBar

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# The ToolBar

The Toolbar is primarily for drawing and formatting graphic shapes. The ToolBar is usually visible. If the ToolBar is not visible, select View ToolBar from the Window menu.

The ToolBar contains the following tools.

Selection Tool: Use this tool to change the selection mode of the document. Click on the bottom right corner of the tool button to display a popup menu with these three selection option tools:

| Normal | Use the normal selection pointer to select, move, and activate items in the workspace.
| Rotate | When positioned at the corners of a selected frame or graphic item, the rotation pointer allows you to freely rotate an item or frame. This pointer works like a normal pointer when not positioned at the corner of a frame or item.
| Reshape | When positioned over the handle of a graphic item, this point allows you to freely reshape an item. This is especially useful for graphic items with many handles, such as a curve or Beizer Curve. This pointer works like a normal pointer when not positioned at the handles on a curve.

Frame Tool: Use this tool to "draw" a new frame in the current workspace. To draw a new frame click the tool and select the type of frame you want to create from the popup menu. The cursor changes to a cross hair (+). Proceed to "draw" the new frame in the workspace.

Graphic Tools: Use these tools for drawing graphic shapes.

- Click once on the tool to draw a single graphic. When finished drawing the graphic item, the cursor returns to the selection tool.
- Double-click the tool for continuous drawing of that type of item. The cursor does not return to a selection tool when finished drawing. To unlock the continuous drawing mode, click the tool once.

| Rectangle Tool | Draws a square or rectangle.
| Ellipse Tool | Draws a circle or oval.
| Round Rectangle Tool | Draws a rectangle with rounded corners.
| Arc Tool | Draws a curve.
| Line Tool | Draws a line.
| Freehand Tool | Draws a free hand shape.
| Bezigon Tool | Draws a Bezier curve. For more information about this type of shape, see the Graphics section.
| Polygon Tool | Draws a polygon shape. For more information about how to draw this shape, see the Graphics section.
| Shapes Tool | Draws any number of pre-defined shapes. For more information about creating pre-defined shapes and adding them to this palette, see the section Pre-defined Shapes.

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