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 Introducing PTWin32 |
Navigation
through the windows, notebook pages, and fields of PTWin32 is carried out
primarily by pointing and clicking your mouse. But did you know there are other
ways to trigger commands and move about the program? In fact it’s possible to
use most of PTWin32 without ever touching your mouse. If
you examine PTWin32’s Main Menu or many of its buttons you will
discover that menu items and button labels contains a single underlined letter.
For example, the first item on the Main Menu reads as; “File”.
Holding down the [Alt] key and pressing the letter “F” will cause the File
Menu to appear. From there you can use the [Down Arrow] key to highlight a
menu item and press [Enter] to execute the selected item. You
can also select the menu items by using their underlined letter. For example,
Press and hold [Alt], then press “A” this will display the Activity Menu.
Without releasing [Alt] you can then press “P” to display the Parcel
Window. Once
the Parcel Window loads you will notice that the Main Menu
contains additional selections that allow you to use the [Alt]/underlined-letter
key combination to execute the commands found on the Window Toolbar. If
you are on a Combo-Box or Pulldown field you can use [Alt] and the
[Up Arrow] and [Down Arrow] keys to display the choices and select an item.
Pressing [Enter] will place the selected item in the field. In
the case of button labels the [Alt]/underlined–letter key combination also
applies. However, one button is usually set as “default” and can be executed
merely by pressing [Enter]. The “default” button can be distinguished by its
darker, thicker border. There
are more keyboard combinations than space in this article. For example, [Ctrl] -
[F4] will close the current window, and [Alt] - [F4] exits PTWin32. Many of
these combinations apply to all Windows programs. More information can be found
in your Windows documentation.
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