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Revolution Shortcuts

The Revolution development environment is very powerful, with lots of menus, palettes, toolbars, etc. that let you create, edit and script objects. In fact, there are so many tools and capabilities available from these places that you can spend a lot of time moving from your keyboard to your mouse and moving the mouse around the screen to find the tool you need. To help speed things up, there are many keyboard shortcuts built into Revolution. It can save you lots of time over the long run to learn some of the shortcuts for functionality that you use often. Here is a handy list of some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts.

Notes:

• In the examples below, the shortcuts for the Mac OS will be shown on the left and the shortcuts for Windows and Unix/Linux on the right.
• The ⌘ symbol refers to the "Command", or Apple, key on Apple keyboards.
• On Mac systems with a multi-button mouse right click is the same as control+click.

Navigation Shortcuts

	Mac	Win/Unix/Linux
go to the first card	⌘+1	control+1
go to the previous card	⌘+2	control+2
go to the next card	⌘+3	control+3
go to the last card	⌘+4	control+4
go to the recent card    (i.e., the card you were on before you came to the current one)	⌘+5	control+5
go to the top or bottom of a field	⌘+up/down arrow	control+up/down arrow

Revolution Environment

choose run (browse) tool	⌘+9	control+9
choose edit (pointer) tool	⌘+0	control+0
toggle between run and edit tools	⌘+option+tab	control+alt+tab
hide/show Revolution palettes	⌘+control+tab	control+tab
display Rev contextual menus in run mode	⌘+shift+control+click	control+shift+right click
save all open stacks	⌘+option+S	control+alt+S

Working with Objects and Controls

create new card	⌘+N	control+N
select multiple controls	shift+click on control
select all controls	⌘+A	control+A
duplicate a control	option+drag	alt+drag
open stack's property inspector	⌘+K	control+K
open a control's property inspector	double click on control
nudge the selected control	arrow keys
nudge the selected control 10 pixels	shift+arrow keys
remove styles, colors, font settings from selected text in field	⌘+;	control+;
Alignment Shortcuts
align edges of selected controls	arrow keys
equalize height & width of selected controls	shift key
equalize heights of selected controls	⌘+shift+=	control+shift+=
equalize widths of selected controls	⌘+=	control+=
Image Editing
Magnify section of image at click point	⌘+click	control+right click
Make image editing tool apply transparency	control+tool	right click+tool

Message Box and Script Editor

open/close message box	⌘+M	control+M
clear message box	⌘+U	control+U
scroll through recent messages in message box	up/down arrows
open stack script	⌘+shift+S	control+shift+S
open card script	⌘+shift+C	control+shift+C
open script of selected control	⌘+E	control+E
open a control's script	⌘+option+click	control+alt+click
switch to find mode in script editor	⌘+F	control+F
put current selection into find box in script editor	⌘+L	control+L
find next occurence of search term in script	⌘+G	control+G
complete Transcript terms in script editor	⌘+number	control+number
format the current handler	tab key
look up a Transcript term in the Dictionary	control+click	right click
apply changes to script (Does not save the stack!)	enter key
apply changes and close script editor	enter key twice
apply changes and save stack while in script editor	⌘+S	control+S
comment out selected lines	⌘+hyphen	control+hyphen
remove comments from selected lines	⌘+shift+hyphen	control+shift+hyphen

Running and Debugging Scripts

stop a running handler	⌘+.	control+.
debugger – step into next line	space bar
debugger – step over next line	option+space bar	alt+space bar
debugger – run handler	enter key
debugger – abort handler	⌘+.	control+.