Keyboard and mouse
Every shortcut and gesture in one place.
Keyboard
| Key | Where | What |
|---|---|---|
| F1 | Windows app | Open this manual. |
| ↑ ↓ | Anywhere in a log | Zoom the graphs in and out around the cursor. |
| ← → | Anywhere in a log | Step the cursor one sample. |
| ← → | Over a paged histogram | Previous and next page. |
| Ctrl+C | Histogram table | Copy the selected cells. |
| Ctrl+Shift+C | Histogram table | Copy with the axis labels. |
| Ctrl+A | Histogram table | Select every cell. |
| Ctrl+V | Dash designer | Paste a copied gauge. |
| Ctrl+Enter | Histogram editor | Save. |
| Esc | Anywhere | Close the menu, pop-over or dialog you are in. It does not close the log. |
Arrow keys always belong to the text box you are typing in, so they never fight an editor.
Mouse and touch
| Drag a graph | Pan, including past either end of the log. |
| Wheel | Zoom around the pointer. |
| Shift + drag | Zoom into the span you drag out. |
| Right-click a graph | Race zero and per-channel Y-axis ranges. |
| Right-click a gauge | Its channel, range, warnings and colours. Works on a finalized dashboard too. |
| Double-click a divider or legend | Reset it. |
| Drag a channel by ≡ | Reorder the list, or drop it on a graph panel. |
| Drag across histogram cells | Select a block. Shift-click extends, Ctrl-click adds single cells, a header takes the row or column. |
| One finger on a touch screen | Moves the cursor. Two fingers pan and pinch. |
This page is part of the manual built into BigData for Windows, where the same topics are available offline with F1.