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Does the File path seem a bit odd to you?


You're probably used to seeing paths in Windows that start with a drive letter, like C:\Temp or D:\Program Files\Blah blah blah. So why doesn't this image object have that kind of path? Well, it's actually quite simple. Instead of showing you the full path, like you normally see in Windows, AutoPlay shows you only the part of the path that is relevant to the project. In this case, its the part of the path inside the projects CD_ROOT folder. This makes the path shorter and easier to read. This kind of partial path is what's known as a relative path.In addition, the objects current position and size are displayed on the status bar.As you move the object, the position readout changes on the status bar.Once an image has been added to your project, it becomes even easier to add it a second time.Heres how it works: whenever you add an image to your project, its copied into your projects Images folder first. Then the project uses that copy instead of the original. (Which is why the File setting is always a path like "AutoPlay\Images\redshoes.jpg" even if you added the file from "C:\My Documents\Graphics\Pictures" of clown feet.)Since there are three image files that you've added to the project so far, you should see three files in the Images folder: the two images you used for the page background (including 630B1151.jpg), and A-001.png.As you resize the object, the size readout changes on the status bar.Note that the contents of the Text setting are automatically selected for you. This makes it easy for you to change the objects text right away. When you type in Ted Sellers, it instantly replacesThis time, the object isn't added in the upper left corner...instead, it appears at the location where you right-clicked on the page.Were going to use this object to display Teds email address, but for now the default text is okay.Because the new object is automatically selected for you, you can create a chain of label objects very quickly by selecting an object and pressing Ctrl+D a few times.To change the text that is displayed in the label object, highlight the contents of the Text setting in the properties pane, and type in the text that you want it to display.As you type in the new text, the objects bounding box automatically resizes to fit.As you type in Teds mailing address, make sure you press Enter at the end of each line.You may notice some red squiggles under the words Fakereal and Realfake. These red squiggles are the spell checkers way of alerting you that those words aren't in its dictionary. We don't care if they aren't, since the whole address is fake, but if you wanted to, you could click the spell check button to step through all such flagged words and choose from a number of suggested spellings.Okay.If the current value is the last item in the list, it just goes back to the beginning. Since the FontBold setting only gives you two options to choose from - namely, true and false - double- clicking on the value goes from false back to true.When you set the Normal color, you should see the label objects text change from black to light blue-grey.

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