Keyboard Reference

Most of the WLDF Console Extension documentation tells how to accomplish tasks using the mouse. However, you can accomplish virtually all of those tasks using the keyboard only, as described in the following sections:

Terms and Conventions

The following terms and conventions are used in Table A-1:

Navigating and Selecting

You can use the keyboard to navigate through the WLDF Console Extension, for example, press the Tab key to move from one control to the other. However, navigating to a control does not initiate an action with the control; it simply makes it available for receiving the next keyboard input. For example, you can press Tab to navigate to a button but you must then press Enter to press the button. In most cases, this is straightforward, and you do not have to be aware of the distinction. A visual cue indicates that an item is selected. For example, a chart is surrounded by a box, or the data points and (legend entry icon) in a scatter plot graph may be displayed as stars. (The visual cues may be different on different platforms.)

The WLDF Console Extension has two main panels, the Tabs panel and the View panel, and one of those tabs is always active. Keyboard input affects whatever control is selected in the active panel. For example, if an edit field is selected in the active panel, any characters you type on the keyboard are added to that edit field.

Certain actions affect the selected item in the panel that is not active. For example, you can navigate to a chart in the View panel and select the chart. You can then navigate to the Selected Item Properties tab in the Tabs panel and make a change to a property (that is, select the control that sets the property’s value, change the value, navigate to the Apply Changes button, and press Enter to push the button). When you apply the changes, the property is changed in the chart selected in the (non-active) View tab.

The (Focus Context) button on the toolbar indicates which panel is active. When the arrow on the button points left, the Tabs panel (on the left) is active. When it points right, the View panel (on the right) is active.

Keyboard Reference

Table A-1 describes how to use the keyboard to accomplish tasks in the WLDF Console Extension.

Table A-1 WLDF Console Extension Keyboard Access 

Pressing this key or these keys...	When this item is selected...	Does this...
Enter	Any button	Presses the button.
Tab	Tabs panel (the panel on the left side of the page)	Selects the next active control. Repeatedly pressing the Tab key cycles through all active controls in the toolbar and the current tab. (That is, one control after another is selected, while the previously selected control is deselected. After the last control is selected, pressing the Tab key again starts the process again.)
Shift+Tab	Tabs panel	Same as Tab, above, but selects the previous instead of the next active control.
Tab	View panel (the panel on the right side of the page)	Selects the next chart in the view. Repeatedly pressing the Tab key cycles through all the charts.
Shift+Tab	View panel	Same as Tab, above, but selects the previous instead of the next chart.
(Right arrow)	Toolbar	Selects the next active button in the toolbar. Repeatedly pressing the arrows cycles through the active buttons in the toolbar.
(Left arrow)	Toolbar	Same as , above, but selects the previous instead of the next button.
(Right arrow)	Tab controls (labels) in the Tabs panel	Selects the next tab. Repeatedly pressing the arrows cycles through all tabs.
(Left arrow)	Tab controls (labels) in the Tabs panel	Same as , above, but selects the previous instead of the next tab.
(Down arrow)	Tree of view names in the Views tab	Selects the next view or folder.
(Up arrow)	Tree of view names in the Views tab	Selects the previous view or folder.
Shift+ (Right arrow)	View panel	Selects the next chart in the current view. Repeatedly pressing the Shift+ cycles through all the charts in the view. Note: If the Tabs panel is active when you click Shift+ , the View panel becomes active, and the next chart is selected.
Shift+ (Left arrow)	View panel	Same as Shift+, above, but selects the previous instead of the next chart.
Shift+ (Down arrow)	View panel	Selects the next graph in the current chart, or if there are no more graphs in the chart, selects the first graph in the next chart. Repeatedly pressing Shift+ cycles through all the graphs in all the charts in the view. Note: If the Tabs panel has is active when you click Shift+, the View panel becomes active, and the next graph is selected.
Shift+ (Up arrow)	View panel	Same as Shift+, above, but selects the previous instead of the next graph.
(Down arrow)	View panel	Scrolls the contents of the panel up, if they extend beyond the visible area.
(Up arrow)	View panel	Scrolls the contents of the panel down, if they extend beyond the visible area.
(Right arrow)	Slider control	Moves the slider control to the right.
(Left arrow)	Slider control	Moves the slider control to the left.
Space bar	Check box	Selects or deselects the check box.
r	Chart in the View panel.	Displays current data in the selected chart. You can use this to return to showing current data after viewing historical data.
Ctrl+X	Chart or graph in the View panel.	Cuts the selected chart or graph and places it onto the Clipboard so it can be pasted to a new location.
Ctrl+C	Chart or graph in the View panel.	Copies the selected chart or graph onto the Clipboard so it can be pasted to a new location.
Ctrl+V	Chart in the View panel.	Pastes the most recently cut or copied graph or chart into the selected chart. If a graph was cut or copied, it is added to the chart. If a chart was cut or copied, it is merged with the selected chart. Note: You can paste a graph or chart into a different view than the one containing the source graph or chart.
Ctrl+Shift+V	View in the View panel.	Creates a new chart, based on the most recently cut or copied graph or chart. If a graph was cut or copied, a new chart containing that graph is created. If a chart was cut or copied, a duplicate of the source chart is created. Note: You can paste a graph or chart into a different view than the one containing the source graph or chart.
Esc	Anywhere	Deselects the currently selected item(s). If an in-place edit field is selected (for example, you can right-click the name of the view or of a chart in the View panel to edit it), pressing Esc first deselects the edit field. Pressing Esc again deselects the chart.
Del	Anywhere	Deletes the currently selected item.