The Context Menu for Embedded Objects and Components

• The Gnumeric Manual, version 1.8
• Gnumeric Elements
• Context Menus

The Context Menu for Embedded Objects and Components.

Figure 4-14 The Context Menu for Graphical Objects

All embedded objects, such as drawing elements, graphs and images, have a context menu which can be invoked by placing the mouse pointer over the element and clicking with one of the secondary mouse buttons.

The first menu entry, labeled Properties, will open a dialog specific to the type of element selected in which the user can configure the properties of the element.

A second menu entry, labeled Save As... and only present for certain elements, allows the object to be saved as an image file. This menu item is not present in Figure 4-14.

A third menu entry, labeled Order, opens a submenu which allows the user to change the visual order in which the graphical elements are placed. This order will affect the way in which the graphical elements obscure each other.

Figure 4-15 The Context Submenu for Graphical Object Order

The remaining menu entries, labeled Cut, Copy, and Delete, allow the user to operate on the whole object at once. The Cut menu item allows the user to remove the element from its current position and then paste the object in a different location on the same sheet, in a different worksheet, in a different gnumeric file, or in a file from a different program entirely. The Copy menu item provides the same functionality while leaving the original item in place. The Delete allows the user to remove the graphical element entirely.