Text Field Gadget Short Cuts

You can mark text for cutting, copying, and erasing by simply clicking and dragging. Hitting alphanumeric keys replaces the text that is highlighted. Hitting cursor keys moves you to the front or end of the highlighted text.

If your cursor is already somewhere in the textfield, you can hold the SHIFT key and click to mark the text from the current cursor position to the place where you clicked.

And the last way to mark text is to double-click, which will mark the word you clicked on. If you didn't click on a word, but rather you clicked on spaces, the whole block of spaces is marked. And if you clicked on word delimiters, the whole block of delimiters is marked.

While you drag to scroll, the farther away from the gadget your mouse pointer is, the faster the gadget will scroll.

For key sequences, the Amiga Style Guide was followed. Anywhere the undo buffer is mentioned, the statement is only valid if the UndoStream is supplied (see tag section below).

Key Sequence Function

TAB Activate next gadget (if GA_TabCycle)

SHIFT TAB Activate previous gadget (if GA_TabCycle)

SHIFT CURSOR UP Move to the top line in the current page, or
scroll up one page if cursor is on top line

SHIFT CURSOR DOWN Move to the bottom line in the current page,
or scroll down one page if cursor is on top
line

CTRL or SHIFT CURSOR RIGHT Move to the right end of the current line

CTRL or SHIFT CURSOR LEFT Move to the left end of the current line

SHIFT BACKSPACE Delete all text to the left of cursor on the
current line

SHIFT DELETE Delete all text to the right of the cursor
on the current line (in block cursor mode
this also includes the highlighted
character)

CTRL CURSOR UP Move to the top line of the text

CTRL CURSOR DOWN Move to the bottom line of the text

ALT CURSOR RIGHT Move to the next word (using the delimiter
characters provided by the programmer)

ALT CURSOR LEFT Move to the previous word (using the delimiter characters provided by the programmer)

ALT CURSOR UP Move to first character in gadget

ALT CURSOR DOWN Move to last character in gadget

ALT BACKSPACE Deletes the word to the left of the cursor
starting at the current cursor position

ALT DEL Deletes the word to the right of the cursor
starting at the current cursor position

CTRL X Deletes the whole line that the cursor is on

RAMIGA [ Switch to left justification (if TEXTFIELD_UserAlign is set)

RAMIGA \ or RAMIGA = Switch to center justification (if TEXTFIELD_UserAlign is set)

RAMIGA ] Switch to right justification (if TEXTFIELD_UserAlign is set)

RAMIGA E Erase all text in gadget (saved in undo buffer) (no read-only)

RAMIGA V Paste text from clipboard to current cursor position (no read-only)

RAMIGA A Mark all text

RAMIGA U Undeletes (pastes) the last block of text marked, or recover from RAMIGA E
(no read-only)

When text is highlighted the following keys have functions:

BACKSPACE Erase marked text (saved in undo buffer)

DEL Erase marked text (saved in undo buffer)

RAMIGA X Cut marked text to clipboard (no read-only)

RAMIGA C Copy marked text to clipboard

RAMIGA V Replace marked text with text from clipboard (save marked text in undo buffer) (no read-only)

Text Field Gadget Short Cuts

Key Sequence Function

Last Update Jan. 14, 1997 HTML Docs by Danny Y. Wong & Frank L. Wong Copyright © 1996-97 Toysoft Development Inc. All rights reserved.

Last Update Jan. 14, 1997
HTML Docs by Danny Y. Wong & Frank L. Wong
Copyright © 1996-97 Toysoft Development Inc.
All rights reserved.