PRIMER 22.1

The Options Popup Menu

Refresh Menus	Refreshes the current menu, updating it to reflect changes to things such as titles and set contents which may not have triggered an automatic menu refresh
Clipboard Add	Adds the current selection to the Clipboard. Existing clipboard contents remain, and only new items are added.
Clipboard Remove	Removes the current selection from the Clipboard. If the selected items are not already in the clipboard then no change takes place.
Clipboard Replace	Replaces the clipboard contents with the currently selected items. Any existing clipboard contents are lost.

Clipboards are model-specific, and replacement only takes place in the models active for this object menu. For example a selection made to change set contents, implicitly for a single model, will only replace the clipboard contents for that model; whereas selection for Blank, which is multi-model, will replace the clipboard contents in all active models.

The clipboard may be used in a range of different ways in PRIMER , see CLIPBOARD, but in the context of object menus it may be used to save and reuse the current selection.

Once the clipboard in a model contains something then in any Object Menu context where:

Multiple selections are legal
and
The clipboard contains one or more items of the specified type

Then a " Clipboard: nnn < item type > " row will appear at the top of the menu.

Selecting this row is a "one click" way of selecting all items on the clipboard which match the current type(s). This can mean multiple types, as in the example here using ENTITY , where the clipboard contains a mixture of entity types.

Blank selected	Blanks the selected items
Unblank selected	Unblanks the selected items, turning on their entity visibility switches if necessary in order to make them visible
Only selected	Blanks everything except the selected items, again turning on their entity visibility switches if required.

When " Only " is used all other items in all models will be blanked, regardless of whether this object menu refers to a single model or multiple ones. This is necessary if "only" the selected items are to be visible.

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