Once you have created new components, DAQFactory offers quite a few tools for moving, resizing, and arranging the components on your pages.  You can even make copies of your components to display your data in more than one place or to use a component's properties as a template for new components.  Most all the mouse actions for arranging components require you to hold down the Ctrl key while clicking, or dragging.  This is because a single click on a component without the Ctrl key is used to trigger an action such as changing an output value.

Selecting and moving Components:

To select a single component,  Ctrl-Click on the desired component.  To select multiple components, hold down the Shift key and Ctrl-Click on all the desired components.  You can also drag a box for selecting multiple components by Ctrl-Clicking in a blank area of the screen, and dragging, touching all the desired components with the newly created box.  

Once you have a component or components selected, you can move them by simply Ctrl-Clicking and dragging inside the selection rectangle.  The selection rectangle is the hatched rectangle that surrounds the selected component(s).  Many components can be resized as well.  When you select one of these components, the selection rectangle will have solid black handles at eight spots around the rectangle.  You can Ctrl-Click and drag any of these handles to resize the component.  To constrain the size of the component to a fixed width/height ratio, also hold down the Shift key while you drag.  You can only resize one component at a time.  If you have more than one component selected, the handles will not appear.  That said, you can resize multiple component using the keyboard shortcuts described below.  

If you have overlapping components, each subsequent Ctrl-Click on an overlapping area will select the next component in that area, making it easier to select components under other components.  When you are trying to move a component that is entirely within the area of another component, you may have to Ctrl-Click and drag the hatched area of the component instead of the center of the component, since clicking the center will select the other component.

Nudging with the keyboard:

You can also use the keyboard to move, or even just nudge components around on the page.  Just press the arrow keys while components are selected (no Ctrl key necessary in Operate mode) and the selected components will move one pixel in the desired direction.  You can hold down the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys to move ten pixels at a time.  For resizable components, you can use the arrow keys to resize as well, just hold down the Ctrl key while pressing the arrow keys to move the bottom right corner one pixel in the desired direction.  You can hold down both the Shift and Ctrl keys to move the bottom right corner ten pixels at a time.

Layout commands:

When you have multiple components selected, you can use the tools in the Layout menu to quickly arrange your components.  The Layout menu is available from the main menu.  The tools in the Layout menu are also available by right clicking inside the selection rectangle.  

Align: Aligns the designated edge of all the components to the component that was selected first among the block.  Does not change the size of the components.

Space Evenly: Arranges the components evenly along the designated axis within, approximately, the width or height of the selection rectangle.  Does not change the location of the components in the other axis.  

Make Same Size:  Makes the selected components the same size in the given axes based on the size of the first component selected.  

Order: Changes the Z order of the component.  This affects which components get displayed in front of other components.  

Symbol: There are four options here that allow you to quickly rotate or flip a symbol component.  This is especially fast when using the keyboard shortcuts displayed next to the menu item.  Rotation of bitmap images is not supported.

Other Commands:

DAQFactory supports the standard Windows clipboard for cut, copy and paste functions on components.  You can use this to duplicate components, or move components on the same page, to another page, or even to another control document.  For quick duplication, the Edit menu and the popup that appears when you right click inside the selection rectangle has a Duplicate Component menu item, which makes a copy of the component and pastes it onto the same Page, offset down the screen by 16 pixels.  The Edit and popup menu also have a Change Component's Page option for moving a component to a different page (multiple pages are discussed in the next section).  They also have a Delete Component menu item for permanently deleting the component.