Creating a Subpalette

Because you can add any existing node to the custom palette tabs that you create, it is possible that you will select more nodes than can be easily displayed on screen without scrolling. To prevent having to scroll, you can create subpalettes into which you place the nodes you chose for the palette tab. For example, if you created a palette tab that contains the nodes you use most frequently for creating your streams, you could create four subpalettes that break the selections down by source node, field operations, modeling, and output.

Note: You can only select subpalette nodes from those added to the parent palette tab.

To create a subpalette:

1. From the Tools menu, open the Palette Manager.
2. Select the palette to which you want to add subpalettes.
3. Click the Sub Palettes button; the Sub Palettes dialog box is displayed.
4. To the right of the Shown? column, click the Add Sub Palette button; the Create/Edit Sub Palette dialog box is displayed.
5. Type in a unique Sub palette name.
6. In the Nodes available area, select the node to be added to the subpalette.
7. Click the Add Node right-arrow button to move a selected node to the Selected nodes area.
8. When you have added the required nodes, click OK to return to the Sub Palettes dialog box.

The subpalettes you create are displayed on the Nodes Palette when you select their parent palette tab. See the topic Changing a Palette Tab View for more information.