Artist Help: Drag and Drop

This is a method of moving and copy objects using only the mouse.

To move an object, make sure that you can see both the source object and the destination. You can view the source from the Navigator frame window or the Client frame window. You can move the object between these to windows.

position the cursor on the object you want to move

press and hold down the left mouse button

now as you move the mouse (still holding the left button down), an image of the object you are moving follows the mouse.

move untill you are over the destination.

let go the mouse button and the object is moved

To copy an object, do operations 1 through 5 above

then, before letting go the mouse button, hold down the 'ctrl' key on the keyboard. A '+' character will appear indicating that you are going to perform a copy operation.

let go the mouse button and the object is copied.

let go the 'ctrl' key