Customizing Toolbars and Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts and Console toolbars can be customized using the Customize dialog box. To open this dialog box, select the Tools -> Customize command from the main menu.

figure 4 - Customize Dialog Box

Customizing Toolbars

You can activate or deactivate toolbars, create new toolbars or remove existing toolbars using the Toolbars Panel of the Customize dialog box. Active toolbars will automatically appear at the top of the Console.

To add or remove commands from a toolbar, click on the Commands tab of the Customize dialog box. Use drag-and-drop to add or remove specific commands from an existing toolbar.

figure 5 - Adding commands to a toolbar

Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

You can navigate through Core Impact using your keyboard and you can assign custom keystrokes to many of Core Impact's basic navigational features using the Keyboard tab of the Customize dialog box.

figure 6 - Customizing keyboard shortcuts

There are several default keystrokes already set up when you install Core Impact:

Action Shortcut
Create new workspace Ctrl + W
Open workspace Ctrl + K
View entity properties Ctrl + Shift + P
View executed modules Ctrl + Shift + X
View modules Ctrl + Shift + M
View quick information Ctrl + Shift + Q
View module log Ctrl + Shift + L
View module parameters Ctrl + Shift + A
View module output Ctrl + Shift + O
Open options Ctrl + E
Search modules F5

To use the Keyboard tab and customize your keystrokes, use the following sections of the properties box:

Category

Commands are grouped into categories (such as Edit or View) which correspond with the Main Menu and the Toolbar.

Commands

The actions you can perform using the keyboard command.

Key assignments

Used to assign new keyboard shortcuts or remove existing ones. Commands can have multiple keyboard shortcuts.

Press new shortcut key

Changes the keyboard shortcut for any command.

 

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