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Flux Studio: Tool Tip Enhancement: Add shortcut keys to the description.

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      CommentAuthorMrPhillip
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    In the World Builder's egroup Alain posted...

    "But , I take to opportunity to ask about a shortcut in Fluxstudio , to get the Dynamic Rotate view , without clicking ...It was F12 in Spazz , can't find one for Flux , neither on their forum ....or their help"

    This gave me a thought about an enhancement to the tool tips. Presently, they describe the function of the tool. Shortcuts (like F12 that works in Spazz but not in FluxStudio) could also be added to the tooltip text (when there is a shortcut available). This would allow users to find out about them and through repeated use maybe learn them.

    Additionally, a listing of shortcut keys might be posted in http://wiki.mediamachines.com/index.php/CommandReference
    or some similar page to allow "ease of discovery" for powerusers that wish to use them.

    The developers made the effort to add shortcuts and know what they are, but the users have to stumble across them or not know that they exist. I see it as a "missed opportunity" if the developers made the effort, but the users don't know about it. These hidden features need to be revealed.
    • CommentAuthorsi
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2007
     
    if you look on the window (pane) context menu, available from a right click on the pane window title bar, ( also reproduced in its entirety on the view, active pane sub menu) you see their is an item to select dynamic rotate, with F8, written next to it, flux initially surprised me with its heavy use of context menu's like this. ( mesh editor context menu has 28 top level items.) but i got used to it very quickly, just look at the context menu as a first resort.

    on a separate point, you actually need to hold in the F8 key, as you start a drag, to get a dynamic rotate, but for some reason this won't work on my laptop, when i use a double click on the touch pad to start a drag, even though this does work, when i use the same technique using the toolbar button.
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      CommentAuthorMrPhillip
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2007
     
    Si: Thanks for pointing this out, it was there all the time (like Dorothy's little red slippers). I decided to capture them all for posterity. Maybe one of the developers can cut and paste this HTML into the Help for those that may look there for them instead of on the menus.

    PS There are perhaps 2 error in the pull down menus; see NOTE on Zoom Out and Paste Appearance.





    Short Cut Keys









    Short Cut Keys for Flux Studio


    View Windows


    In Flux Studio right click on any view window header bar to see a list of short cut keys...



    • Front CTRL+F

    • Right CTRL+R

    • Left CTRL+L

    • Top CTRL+T

    • Back CTRL+B

    • Bottom CTRL+M

    • Isometric CTRL+




    • Perspective Shift+CTRL+O

    • Wireframe Shift+CTRL+W

    • Show Grid Shift+CTRL+G

    • Snap to Grid Shift+CTRL+S




    • Zoom In [+]

    • Zoom Out [-]
      •     Note: menu says [+] (which is zoom in)
    • Zoom All CTRL+Z




    • Pan F7

    • Right Arrow Key

    • Left Arrow Key

    • Up Arrow Key

    • Down Arrow Key




      Rotate 30 degrees
    • Right CTRL+Arrow Key

    • Left CTRL+Arrow Key

    • Up CTRL+Arrow Key

    • Down CTRL+Arrow Key




    • Display Options SHIFT+D

    • Grid Options SHIFT+G

    • Show Widget F6


    File Menu



    • New CTRL+N

    • Open CTRL+O

    • Save CTRL+S

    • Export X3D or VRML CTRL+F3

    • Export Text to clipboard CTRL+F4

    • Import X3D or VRML SHIFT+F3

    • Exit ALT+F4



    Edit Menu



    • Undo CTRL+Z

    • Redo CTRL+Y

    • Undo/Redo History SHIFT+CTRL+U

    • Delete DEL

    • Cut CTRL+X

    • Copy CTRL+C

    • Paste CTRL+V

    • Duplicate CTRL+D

    • Copy Transform SHIFT+CTRL+T

    • Paste Transform SHIFT+T

    • Copy Appearance SHIFT+CTRL+A

    • Paste Appearance SHIFT+A
      •     Note: menu says SHIFT+T (which is paste Transform)
    • Copy Animation Keys SHIFT+CTRL+K

    • Paste Animation Keys SHIFT+K

    • Copy X Section SHIFT+CTRL+X

    • Paste X Section SHIFT+X

    • Copy Character SHIFT+CTRL+C

    • Substitute Character SHIFT+C

    • Translate F2

    • Rotate F3

    • Scale F4

    • Center of Rotation and Scale CTRL+F2

    • Hide Selected CTRL+H



    View Menu



    • Show GUI Windows CTRL+F11

    • Float or Dock Tree Window F11

    • Zoom All in All Views SHIFT+CTRL+Z

    • Show Manipulation Widget F6

    • Manipulation Widget Mode CTRL+F6

    • Display Options SHIFT+D



    Selection Menu



    • Abort Esc

    • Select Parent Page Up

    • Select First Child Page Down

    • Select Previous Sibling HOME

    • Select Next Sibling END

    • Select Master CTRL+M

    • Reparent CTRL+P

    • Set Working Group CTRL+W

    • Previous Node in Selection History F9

    • Next Node in Selection History F10

    • Select Parent Page Up



    Tools Menu



    • Enable Mesh Editor CTRL+E

    • Convert into Faces CTRL+I



    Animation Menu



    • Enable Animation Timeline CTRL+Q



    Publish Menu



    • Quick Preview CTRL+F5

    • Preview in Flux F5


    Help Menu



    • Help on Selected F1




    • CommentAuthorsi
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2007
     
    just had a thought, couldn't you have a sort of shortcut tooltip menu, havent seen this anywhere else before, but how it would work would be that a second or so after holding down the modifier, like CTRL, a tooltip box would appear with a list of the shortcuts available with that modifier, so in this case it would have all the possible keys that combine with the ctrl and their usage description.

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