Appendices

Keyboard shortcuts

General:

F1

Open context-sensitive Help about the currently active window or dialog box.

Alt+F4

Close the active window.

Alt+Tab

Show all opened Windows applications one by one.

Alt+Esc

Activate all windows and minimized windows on the desktop one by one (next applications).

Shift+Alt+Esc

Activate all windows and minimized windows on the desktop one by one (previous applications).

Ctrl+Esc

Open the Task List.

To open menus and to choose commands on menus:

Alt or F10

Activate the menu bar of the current window. Use the Down arrow or type an underlined letter to open a menu, and use the Left and Right Arrow to move to another menu.

Alt+char

To open a menu in a window, press Alt and simultaneously the key of an underlined letter in a menu name. For instance, to open the File menu, press Alt+F.

char

To choose a menu command when a menu is opened, press the key of an underlined command name. For instance, to choose Exit on the opened File menu, press X.

Esc

Stop the activation of a menu.

Alt+Space

Open the Control Menu of a window.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear:

Ctrl+X

Cut: clear the (selected) contents from the active window and copy it to the clipboard.

Ctrl+C

Copy the (selected) contents of the active window to the clipboard.

Ctrl+V

Paste the contents of the clipboard into the active window.

Del

Clear the (selected) contents from the active window.

Shift+Del

Cut: clear the (selected) contents from the active window and copy it to the clipboard.

Ctrl+Ins

Copy the (selected) contents of the active window to clipboard.

Shift+Ins

Paste the contents of the clipboard into the active window.

PrintScrn

Copy the entire screen/desktop to the clipboard.

Alt+PrintScrn

Copy an entire active window to clipboard including title bar, menu bar, window borders etc.

Main window:

Help

F1

Open Help on Main window.

Move cursor

Arrows

When an item is selected in the Operation-tree or Operation-list or in the Catalog, the cursor moves up and down in the Operation-tree or Operation-list, or up, down, to the left or to the right in the Catalog.

PgUp,PgDn

When an item is selected in the Operation-tree, Operation-list or in the Catalog, the cursor moves up or down in the Operation-tree, Operation-list or in the Catalog.

Character

In the Operation-tree, Operation-list and in the Catalog, the cursor moves to the next item beginning with that character.

Clear cmdline

Esc

The cursor is located on the command line, Esc will clear the command line.

Close

Alt+F4

Close the Main window and thus leave ILWIS.

Map window:

Help

F1

Open Help on map window.

Redraw map

F5

Redraw the map; the color lookup table is re-initialized.

Ctrl+R

Redraw the map; the color lookup table is re-initialized.

Copy

Ctrl+C

Copy the contents of the map window to the clipboard.

Ctrl+Ins

Copy the contents of the map window to the clipboard.

Paste

Ctrl+V

Paste the contents of the clipboard into a map window as a new annotation layer.

Shift+Ins

Paste the contents of the clipboard into a map window as a new annotation layer.

Zoom

Ctrl+I

Zoom in on the center of the map window with a factor 2.

Ctrl+O

Zoom out with a factor 2.

Ctrl+E

Display the entire map.

Move cursor

Arrows

Move the cursor 1 screen pixel up, down, to the left or to the right.

Ctrl+Arrow

Move the cursor 10 screen pixels up, down, to the left or to the right.

Scrolling

PgUp

Scroll upwards (100 screen pixels).

PgDn

Scroll downwards (100 screen pixels).

Home

Scroll to the left (100 screen pixels).

End

Scroll to the right (100 screen pixels).

Ctrl+PgUp

Scroll to the first line of the current column.

Ctrl+PgDn

Scroll to the last line of the current column.

Ctrl+Home

Scroll to the first column of the current line.

Ctrl+End

Scroll to the last column of the current line.

Print

Ctrl+P

Print the contents of the map window.

Close

Alt+F4

Close a map window.

All editors:

F1

Help on the current editor.

Enter

Edit code of selection.

Pixel editor/Sample set editor:

Arrows

Move the pixel selection cursor 1 pixel up, down, to the left, or to the right.

Shift+arrows

Move the pixel selection cursor 1 pixel up, down, to the left, or to the right, and switch the selection of this pixel: deselect it when it was selected, and select it when it was not yet selected.

Ctrl+arrows

Move the pixel selection cursor 1 pixel up, down, to the left, or to the right, and add this pixel to the selection.

Shift+Ctrl+arrows

Move the pixel selection cursor 1 pixel up, down, to the left, or to the right, and deselect this pixel from the selection.

Space

Switch the selection of this pixel: deselect it when it was selected, and select it when it was not yet selected.

Esc

Clear the current selection.

Del

Clear the current selection.

Copy and Paste in the pixel editor:

Cut

Copy the selected pixels into the clipboard, and clear the selection. The clipboard contains the pixels in point format as well as in table format; so you may paste the pixels as points into a point map or into any table.

Copy

Copy the currently selected pixels into the clipboard. The clipboard contains the pixels in point format as well as in table format; so you may paste the pixels as points into a point map or into any table.

Paste

On the coordinates of the points in the clipboard: paste the point codes into the current map.

Polygon editor:

Esc

Switch to Select mode.

Segment editor:

Esc

Switch to Select Mode, or
when entering a segment: stop entering the segment, and return to the situation before starting to enter this segment; or
when moving a point: stop moving the point, and return to the situation before starting to move this point.

Point editor:

Esc

Switch to Select Mode.

Copy and Paste in the point editor:

Cut

Delete the selected points and copy them into the clipboard. The clipboard contains the points also in table format; so you may paste it into any table.

Copy

Copy the currently selected points into the clipboard. The clipboard contains the points also in table format; so you may paste it into any table.

Paste

Pastes points in the clipboard into the current map.

Annotation Text editor:

Esc

Clear the current selection.

Ins

Insert a new annotation text item.

Del

Delete the currently selected text items.

For one or more selected text items:

Shift + F

To select another font;

Shift + S

To change the font size;

Shift + B

Toggle between bold / not bold;

Shift + I

Toggle between italics / not italics;

Shift + U

Toggle between underlined / not underlined;

Shift + C

To select another color;

Shift + J

To select another justification method;

Shift + T

Toggle between transparent / not transparent;

Shift + R

To specify another rotation.

Copy and paste in the Annotation Text editor:

Cut

Delete the selected annotation text items and copy them into the clipboard. The clipboard contains the text items, each one on a new line.

Copy

Copy the currently selected annotation text items into the clipboard. The clipboard contains the text items, each one on a new line.

Paste

Pastes the first line in the clipboard as a new text item into the current annotation text object. The new text item will be displayed on the map in the annotation text editor.

Table window:

Ctrl+G

Goto a specific record.

Esc

Clear the current selection, or clear the command line.

Scrolling

PgUp

scroll 10 records up.

PgDn

scroll 10 records down.

Ctrl+Home

scroll vertically to the top field of the table.

Ctrl+End

scroll vertically to the bottom field of the table.

Ctrl+PgDn

scroll 4 columns to the right.

Ctrl+PgUp

scroll 4 columns to the left.

When editing a table:

Left arrow

Move one character to the left within the active field, or
when editing a field of a domain type Class column: select the previous class in the class list.

Right arrow

Move one character to the right within the active field, or
when editing a field of a domain type Class column: select the next class in the class list.

Ctrl+Left

Move to the previous word in the active field.

Ctrl+Right

Move to the next word in the active field.

Home

Move to the beginning of the active field.

Ctrl+Home

Move to the beginning of the active field.

End

Move to the end of the active field.

Ctrl+End

Move to the end of the active field.

Esc

Stop editing, do not save the contents current field.

Enter

Accept the contents of the current field.

Up Arrow

Accept the contents of the current field and move one field up.

Down Arrow

Accept the contents of the current field and move one field down.

Tab

Accept the contents of the current field and move one field to the right.

Shift+Tab

Accept the contents of the current field and move one field to the left.

Shift+Up

Accept the contents of the current field and move 10 fields up.

Shift+Down

Accept the contents of the current field and move 10 fields down.

Ctrl+Tab

Accept the contents of the current field and move 5 fields to the right.

Ctrl+Up

Accept the contents of the current field and move 100 fields up.

Ctrl+Down

Accept the contents of the current field and move 100 fields down.

Copy and Paste in a table window:

Copy

Copies the current selection to the clipboard.

Paste

Pastes the contents of the clipboard into the currently selected fields.

Dialog boxes:

F1

Open Help for this dialog box.

Tab

Move to the next option or area in the dialog box.

Shift+Tab

Move to the previous option or area in the dialog box.

Alt+char

To move to certain dialog box item, press Alt and simultaneously the key of an underlined letter in the dialog box.

Space

When the currently selected item in the dialog box is a check box, press the space bar to select or clear this check box. When the currently selected item in the dialog box are option buttons, press the space bar to select the next option.

Enter

Close the dialog box and perform the action according to the parameters used in the dialog box (OK). If a parameter is not correctly selected, the dialog box remains open and the incorrect entry is highlighted.

Esc or Alt+F4

Close the dialog box without performing any action (Cancel).

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