The Accelerator Guide

Although most operations in Probe can be performed using the mouse, experienced users often feel that operating the program using the keyboard is more effective. Probe has been designed to minimize the situations where you need to switch between keyboard and mouse interface.

The Accelerator Guide can help in finding the keyboard accelerator for a command. It's a simple tool which lists available keyboard accelerators, together with a short description of their associated function.

The Accelerator Guide can be used either as a independent tool, or as a component on the Function Bar.

See also: Reference manual, the Accelerator Guide.

Fig 1: The Accelerator Guide as an independent tool

Fig 2: The Accelerator Guide as an element in the Function Bar

The Accelerator Guide is sensitive for the keyboard qualifiers (Shift, Alt and Ctrl) currently pressed down. In the figures above, the red letters 'None' indicate that no qualifier is currently pressed.

If we want to find out which Shift qualified keyboard accelerators are available, we press the Shift key, and click on the button. A popup window as in fig 3 appears. When done, press Esc or click outside of the popup window. 

Fig 3: Using the Accelerator Guide, with Shift key pressed

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