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Solaris Easy Access Server 3.0 Print Manager Administration Guide

Using Solaris Print Manager's Mouseless Navigation Features

This section describes how to use keyboard features instead of the mouse to navigate and activate the Solaris Print Manager application.

Overview of Mouseless Keyboard Navigation

You can use the keyboard to activate screen components without having to use the computer mouse. The standard alphanumeric keys are available, along with the following:

The modifier keys (Shift, Control, and Alt) do not produce a character but can be used in combination with other keys to modify an action.

The functionality described in this section has been verified on the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 1.1 and 1.2 versions only. Using Solaris Print Manager's mouseless navigation with other window managers may cause unpredictable results.

Keyboard Focus Management

Keyboard focus activates the Solaris Print Manager window or the component in which your next keystrokes will take effect. Most components indicate keyboard focus by displaying a surrounding dashed rectangle, and editable text components show a blinking insertion point.

When a window opens, keyboard focus is assigned to the most logical component. Typically, this is the component that would be used first or the component in the upper left of the window, but in some cases, keyboard focus is assigned to a button.

In general, pressing the Tab key cycles keyboard focus through the major components. Pressing the Shift-Tab keys cycles keyboard focus through the components in the reverse direction. Arrow keys are used to manipulate focus within groups of components. For example, pressing the Tab key moves the focus to a set of buttons, and then pressing the arrow keys moves the focus among the individual buttons. Once an element has focus, pressing the Space bar usually activates it.

Common Navigation Keys

Some of the keyboard navigation operations in the following table may be temporarily incomplete or unimplemented.

Table 1-4 Keyboard Navigation

Key 

Use This Key To ... 

Tab 

Navigate in or out of a component 

Shift-Tab  

Navigate in the opposite direction of the Tab key 

Left Arrow  

Move focus left one character or component within a group 

Right Arrow  

Move focus right one character or component within a group 

Up Arrow  

Move focus up one line or component within a group 

Down Arrow 

Move focus down one line or component within a group 

Page Up  

Move up one view 

Page Down 

Move down one view  

Home 

Move to the beginning of data; in a table, move to the beginning of a row 

End 

Move to the end of data; in a table, move to the last cell in a row 

Enter or Return 

Activate default button 

Escape 

Dismiss menu or dialog box without changes 

Space bar 

Activate or select the component which has keyboard focus 

Using Mnemonics

Mnemonics provide keyboard alternatives to the mouse for displaying Solaris Print Manager menus or choosing commands. A mnemonic is an underlined letter in a menu title, menu item, or command button. It reminds you how to activate the equivalent command by simultaneously pressing the Alt key and the character key that corresponds to the underlined letter. Once you have displayed a menu with a keyboard sequence, the subsequent letter you press is unique to that menu.

For example, to display the Printer menu and use the Add Access to Printer menu, press the Alt and P keys simultaneously, then press the A key to choose the Add Access to Printer menu. Press the Alt and H keys to display the Help menu.

There are also mnemonics for controls within Solaris Print Manager dialog boxes such as the Select Naming Service menu. Buttons have mnemonics indicated on their labels. Once you have moved keyboard focus into the dialog box, you may simply press a button's mnemonic to activate it.

Solaris Print Manager's Default Buttons

Each Solaris Print Manager dialog box that contains buttons has an associated default button. This button, indicated by a heavy black border, is activated if you press the Return key when focus is anywhere in the dialog box.

When focus is within a combo box such as the Naming Service menu, pressing the Return key doesn't activate the default button nor will pressing the Esc (Escape) key cancel a menu. Instead, you'll see the following behavior:

As you move focus among the available buttons, the border which indicates the default surrounds the button which currently has focus. This means that pressing the Return key activates whatever button has focus. Pressing the Space bar also activates a button which has focus. When focus moves from a button to another component in the dialog, the original default button is restored.