The <tt>Duplicate</tt> Button



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The Duplicate Button

 

The Duplicate button enables the user to create an identical copy of either a host or a file. Selection of this button causes the message Click on item to the Duplicated to appear in the context-sensitive message area. If the user subsequently clicks on a circle (host) on the canvas, a copy of that host appears elsewhere on the canvas. The user must then modify this host. This affords the user a quick way of adding new hosts, especially if the same set of local source files must be sent to this new host.

The canvas currently accommodates an adjustable number of rows and columns of hosts and that the new host is added to the shortest column. Furthermore, the canvas is filled row-wise from left to right. That is, the first n hosts comprise the first row and host n+1 begins a second row. If the nth host is duplicated, this duplicate becomes the nth host and all hosts after it are displaced. This may cause some disorientation at first. The user new to PADE is encouraged to experiment with the Tree View window using the example setup files provided in the examples subdirectory of the PADE distribution.

If the user subsequently clicks on a rectangle (file), a copy of that file is added to the same host. The user can then modify the name of this duplicate. This is a quick way of adding new files to the list of those to be transferred to a given host.




Fri Mar 31 20:30:34 EST 1995