Topic       : User Manual for TeraDesk
Author      : Wout Klaren, Henk Robbers, Djordje Vukovic
Version     : February 2017
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      Menus and Dialogs

4.6 Keyboard shortcuts                                        TeraDesk

Besides mouse selection,  menu items can also be set to be selected by
pressing  a  key  or  a  key combination. These keyboard shortcuts are
user-definable and can be set in the Desk preferences... dialog.

Likewise,  most  buttons  in  dialog boxes  can also be  selected by a
key:  Press  and  hold  down [Alternate] and then press the key of the
character in the button that is underlined.

Boxes  with  arrows  can  be  selected  by  holding down [Control] and
pressing the corresponding cursor (arrow) key on the keyboard.

Directory  windows  on  disk  volume root directories can be opened by
pressing  the  [Alternate][?]  key  combination  ('?' representing the
drive name,  i.e.  characters  A  to  P   or  A  to  Z).  Pressing the
[Alternate][Shift][?]  combination will open the root directory of the
specified disk volume in the existing top window.

If the [Shift][Help] key combination is pressed, TeraDesk will attempt
to call or start the  hypertext-viewer  accessory or program  (usually
this would be ST-Guide),  if any  is installed  as the application for
the *.HYP filetype, and display the hypertext manual for Tera Desktop.
The installed program  should recognize  the syntax  used by  ST-Guide
(Tera Desktop's help is opened as "*:\TERADESK.HYP pagename").

If [Help] only is pressed  while any dialog is open, TeraDesk will, in
a similar way, attempt to display the page  from the  hypertext manual
corresponding  to the  currently open dialog.  Dialogs must be  in the
windowed mode (see Desk preferences...)  for this feature to be active
(help is not available in  The font selector dialog  when it is called
by another program).

If [Help] key is pressed  when there are no open dialogs, Tera Desktop
will display The keyboard help dialog with brief explanations of basic
keyboard commands.

[Undo] can be used to deselect all objects  selected on the desktop or
in the directory windows.

There are also a number of keyboard shortcuts  available which produce
effects that are specific to certain window types.

See also: TeraDesk Windows  Conventions  Dragging Objects