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3SL Web-based newsletter for August 2005 [Cradle 5.2]

Keyboard Controls for Navigating Symbols

A number of operations in the Toolset’s Diagram Editor (DGE) can be controlled by the cursor keys, so moving symbols, and moving around within diagrams, can be keyboard-based, which is often quicker and easier. Specifically:
  1. When symbol(s) are selected, pressing the cursor Left, Right, Up and Down keys will move the selected symbols by the maximum of 8 diagram coordinates or one grid unit in the currently-selected grid size
  2. All of these move operations also support the CTRL- and META- (defaults to ALT on PCs) modifier keys, to do object only move and tied move operations. For example, CTRL-Down will perform an object-only downwards move.
  3. All of these operations also support the SHIFT- modifier which increases the size of the move to the maximum of 64 diagram coordinates or a grid unit. For example, SHIFT-CTRL-Down will do a large object-only downwards move.
  4. If symbols are group-selected (in eFFBDs and PFDs), then the cursor Up and Down keys will move the selected branch up and down, in the same way as the buttons in the bottom-left corner of the DGE session and the options in the Construct menu.
  5. If symbols are group-selected (in eFFBDs and PFDs), pressing CTRL- cursor Up or Down will group select the previous or next branches, respectively
  6. If symbols are group-selected (in eFFBDs and PFDs), pressing CTRL- cursor Right will group-select the first (topmost) branch in the current branch (for the leftmost symbol in the selected branch that has multiple output branches). If there are none, then it will group-select the first (topmost) branch of the first symbol after (to the right of) the currently group-selected branch.
  7. If symbols are group-selected (in eFFBDs and PFDs), pressing CTRL- cursor Left will group-select the branch outside the currently selected branch. That is, it will select the branch containing the currently-selected branch.
  8. If symbols are group-selected (in eFFBDs and PFDs), the Page Up and Page Down keys will reorder the branches, in the same way as the buttons in the bottom-left corner of the DGE session and the options in the Construct menu

 

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