Keyboard Short Cut Actions Dialog

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The Keyboard Short Cut Actions dialog allows the user to associate a keyboard shortcut to a determined oneline diagram, and even to a particular view of that diagram. When the keyboard shortcut is pressed, the oneline diagram is opened (if it was closed) and brought to the front. When a view is also associated, then the user is taken to such a view.

To open the Keyboard Short Cut Actions Dialog, select Keyboard Shortcuts on the General Options ribbon group of the Options ribbon tab. These General Options are also available on the Oneline ribbon tab.

The dialog has the following controls:

Keyboard Shortcuts

Lists all the keyboard shortcuts. When selecting a keyboard shortcut, it will show the oneline and the view associated to the selected keyboard shortcut. If your keyboard has an extra row of function keys, then you can check the box labeled Include F13-F24. If a shortcut has been defined for the respective key, then it will be highlighted and a string will summarize the action of the shortcut

Clear All

Clicking this button will delete all the associations of all the listed shortcuts.

Save Shortcut

Click this button after entering a oneline diagram and eventually a view so they can be associated with the selected keyboard shortcut.

Delete Shortcut

Click this button to delete the associations of the selected keyboard shortcut with any oneline diagram and view.

Create Shortcut

This indicates the keyboard shortcut to which the below actions will be assigned. The available actions are to Open a Oneline and to Open an Auxiliary File

Open Oneline

The following options are available for opening oneline actions:

Oneline and View: Oneline

Shows the path and the name of the oneline diagram which will be opened when the selected keyboard shortcut is pressed. If the field is blank, then no oneline diagram is associated to the keyboard shortcut. You can click Browse to find the oneline diagram.

Oneline and View: View

Shows the name of the view belonging to the associated oneline diagram to which the user will be taken when the selected keyboard shortcut is pressed. If the field is blank, then no view is associated to the keyboard shortcut.

Action for already open onelines

If the oneline being requested by the shortcut key is already open, then this option determines what should be done. Choices are to close the oneline, bring the oneline to the front, or to open a new oneline.

Where to open oneline

When opening a oneline via a shortcut key, you may do one of the following:

• Separate Window (open the oneline as normal)
• Separate Window – Toggle Full Screen (open normal and then toggle it to full screen)
• Embed the Active Oneline Window (opens the oneline and embeds it inside the presently active oneline diagram)

Note: if onelines already exist which have been toggled to full screen, and a short cut key is used to open a window that will not be toggled to full screen, then all other onelines present open will be switched to normal mode instead of full screen mode.

Size and Location

This specifies the relative size and location you would like the oneline to be opened at. When opening the oneline normally, the percentage is relative to the size of the container window. When opening the oneline embedded in the active oneline, the percentage is relative to the size of the active oneline.

Make embedded oneline borderless

When embedding the oneline inside the presently active oneline, this option will make the embedded oneline borderless.

Open Auxiliary File

The following options are available for opening auxiliary file action:

Filename

Shows the path and the name of the auxiliary file which will be opened when the selected keyboard shortcut is pressed. If the field is blank, then no auxiliary file is associated to the keyboard shortcut. You can click Browse to find the auxiliary file.

Section name

Shows the name of the script or data section belonging to the associated auxiliary file which will be executed when the selected keyboard shortcut is pressed. If the field is blank, then no specific section is associated to the keyboard shortcut, so all script and data sections will be loaded.

Create objects if they do not already exist

Check this box to indicate that new objects in the auxiliary file should automatically be created.

Save/Load shortcuts to/from an Auxiliary File

Click the Save button to save all the shortcuts to an auxiliary file. Click the Load button to load the shortcuts saved in an auxiliary file. The shortcuts saved in the auxiliary file will replace the shortcuts saved in the dialog.

Close

Closes this dialog.

 

In addition to the shortcuts displayed on this dialog, Simulator also offers standard windows editing shortcuts such as:

Ctrl + x – Cut Command

Ctrl + c – Copy Command

Ctrl + v – Paste Command