## Opening UI Designs

Before you can work with an existing UI design it must be opened in the UI Design Editor view.

#### Opening a UI Design

- In the Gallery view, double-click a design to open it for editing

The design appears in a new UI Design Editor view.

- In the C/C++ Project view, double-click a design file (.uidesign) to open it for editing

The design appears in a new UI Design Editor view.

NOTE You can select multiple .uidesign files to open by Shift- or Ctrl-clicking file names. Shift-click to select a range of .uidesign files, Ctrl-click to select discontinuous files in the project.

##### Related references

- UI Design Editor
- Outline View
- Properties View
- Events View

##### Related tasks

- Deleting UI Designs
- Renaming a UI Design
- Selecting a UI Design
- Setting UI Designer Preferences