Compartment Editor Dialog
- Last UpdatedDec 19, 2025
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Activated via one of the following methods:
1. Selecting the menu item COMPARTMENTATION \ COMPARTMENTS \ EDITOR...,or clicking
the
icon in the Compartment Toolbar or from the Compartment View (or Full View) tree,
using the pop-up menu item EDIT...(having selected the relevant compartment(s) to
edit).

Figure 4:15 The Compartment Editor dialog - Basic page
This dialog allows you to create or edit the definition of any compartment, whether it is of a basic or merged type.
The mode of operation for the dialog is set using the appropriate option, Create or Edit.
Depending on the mode, various options will be disabled as appropriate.
The Compartments: list is used to hold the compartments to be considered during an editing session. When editing, the Apply button and information displayed, acts on and refers to,respectively, only the currently selected items in this list.
Note:
That for merged compartments, only the editing of a single compartment at a time is
appropriate.) To populate the Compartments: list either, (a) select Get (from the
pop-up menu) to interactively pick the required objects via the cursor in any of the
views (use the space bar to end the selection process), or (b) drag the items from
a tree view and drop them into the list.