# Edit Menu

The Edit Menu allows you to modify parts of your widget hierarchy within the Design Area.

Undo - reverses the most recently executed edit operation.

Cut - removes the currently selected widget (and any children of the widget) from the active window design and places it in the clipboard buffer.

Copy - copies the currently selected widget (and any children of the widget) to the clipboard buffer without removing it from the active window design.

Paste - pastes the contents of the clipboard buffer into the active window design underneath the currently selected widget. WorkShop Visual does not allow you to create invalid Motif designs, so Paste is automatically disabled when the contents of the clipboard may not be a child of the currently selected widget.

Clear - removes the currently selected widget (and any children of the widget) from the active window design, without placing it in the clipboard buffer.

Copy to file - copies the currently selected widget (and any children of the widget) to a named clipboard file without removing it from the active window design.

Paste from file - pastes the contents of a named clipboard file into the active window design underneath the currently selected widget.

Search - Displays the Search dialog.

NOTES

Moving and copying widgets can be performed more using the mouse. You are referred to help on the design area for more details of these and other quick mouse editing operations.

See also:

- Design Area
- Clipboard File dialog
- Search
- About WorkShop Visual