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Control areas

 
Control areas tool is useful for manually managing those control areas that Dr.Explain highlighted automatically. To switch to the Control areas tool, click the Control areas tab in the Designer.
 
Control areas
 
1

Zoom

1. Zoom
 
Use these buttons to zoom in/out. You can hold Ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel.
2

Add control

2. Add control
 
Click this button to add a new control reference manually.
3

Show/hide control

3. Show/hide control
 
Click this button to hide/show the control bullets without removing the controls from the project. Click Hide control to make it invisible.
 
To view the list of hidden controls, switch to the Control areas. In the panel on the right, hidden controls are marked with an icon :
 
 
To show control (make it visible), select it and click Hide control:
 
4

Delete control

4. Delete control
 
Click this button to remove the selected control reference from the project.
5

Control size and dimensions

5. Control size and dimensions
 
You can use these spin boxes to set the control area position and dimensions in pixels.
6

Control area

6. Control area
 
Edit the control area by dragging the highlighted area borders.
7

Control list

7. Control list
 
This list shows all controls of the annotated screenshot. Use it for switching between controls.
 
All other features are the same as in the Designer.
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