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Command: Keyboard Configuration

Symbol: _visu_icon_hotkey_configuration.png, Shortcut: Alt+F6

Function: The command opens and closes the Keyboard Configuration tab above the visualization editor.

Call: Visualization menu

Requirement: A visualization is open and active in the visualization editor.

Tab: Keyboard Configuration

Symbol: _visu_icon_keyboard.png

The tab contains a list of hotkeys with an editing option.

A hotkey can refer specifically to an element. Then the configuration appears here and in the Input configuration property of the associated element.

A hotkey can also have multiple configurations. If a hotkey has multiple keyboard configurations, then its input actions are executed in the order listed here.

Hotkeys of the standard keyboard handling are not listed here.

Key

Key that a keyboard configuration is defined

Example: M

Note

You can combine the key with Ctrl, Alt, and/or Shift.

Press key

standard icon: The input action is executed when the user presses the key.

_cds_icon_option_deactivated.png: The input action is executed when the user releases the key.

Double-click: List box of all keys.

Note

If the input action should be executed for both pressing the key (KeyDown) and releasing the key (KeyUp), then you must define a keyboard configuration for both input actions.

Shift

standard icon: The input event is triggered for Shift+key.

Ctrl

standard icon: The input event is triggered for Ctrl+key.

Alt

standard icon: The input event is triggered for Alt+key.

Action type

Input action

Double-click: List box of input actions.

Tip

For a description of input actions, see the Input Configuration dialog.

Action

Configuration of the input action that was selected next

Double-click: A dialog opens that varies according to the input action. It allows the user-prompted customization of the settings.

Tip

For a description of dialogs, see the Input configuration dialog. The input action is configured in the same way here.

Element ID

ID of the visualization element where the user can execute the key event. The ID is relevant only if the event is also assigned to an element.

Tip

The assignment of ID to element name is listed on the Element List tab.

Access Rights

Access privileges of the action per user group

Requirement: The visualization has a user management.

_visu_icon_arrow_down.png

Clicking the symbol on the right of the list moves the selected row one line down.

_visu_icon_arrow_up.png

Clicking the symbol on the right of the list moves the selected row one line up.

Blank line

Allows adding a new keyboard configuration.

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