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M. H. Golkar edited this page Jan 23, 2025 · 7 revisions

Here is a list of Arrow editor's keyboard and mouse shortcuts:

Inspector Panel

To open a node in the Inspector panel, simply Double-Click on any Node, or just select one if Auto Inspection quick preference is active.

  • Ctrl + I toggles the Auto Inspection.

You can also use status-bar's Quick Pref. menu button to manage similar behaviors.

Other useful shortcuts related to the Inspector panel are as follows:

  • Ctrl + Shift + Minus (-) resets Parameters to the last saved state of the inspected node

  • Ctrl + Shift + Plus (+) updates the node parameters

  • Ctrl + P toggles the Inspector panel

  • Ctrl + \ changes the Grid view to focus on the inspected node

  • Ctrl + U toggles Auto Node Update

Auto Node Update quick preference (enabled by default) applies node modifications automatically when user leaves the node. That is by inspecting another node or deselects the current one by clicking on the grid or multiple selection.

This behavior only works with nodes. Other resources must be set to update manually. To store data permanently, you should save the document.

Re-selecting a node will reset modified parameters to the latest kept state if the Reset on Re-inspection quick preference is enabled.

Item Lists

Item lists which offer move or sort functions (e.g. Dialog and Interaction lists), would also support following shortcuts:

  • Home moves selected items to the top
  • End moves selected items to the end
  • PageUp or Ctrl + Up moves selected items up
  • PageDown or Ctrl + Down moves selected items down
  • Delete removes selected items if allowed

Grid (Graph) & Editor

  • Ctrl + Arrow-Keys moves selected nodes on the (focused) grid

  • Selection

    • Ctrl + W deselects nodes all
    • Ctrl + Left-Click is used to select multiple nodes
    • Shift + Left-Click selects a branch (i.e. a series) between two selected nodes

      It accept one beginning and multiple end nodes. You can activate waterfall mode holding Alt, to select sibling nodes of the series as well.

  • Query (Global Text Search)

    • Ctrl + Q or F3 focuses on the query (search) input
    • Ctrl + 2 locates the next match on the grid
    • Ctrl + 1 locates the previous match

  • View

    • F11 toggles full-screen
    • Mouse-Wheel zooms in or out, so does Ctrl + Plus|Minus
    • Middle-Mouse-Button grabs the grid and moves the view
    • Ctrl + Mouse-Wheel scrolls the grid vertically, and horizontally if combined with Shift
    • Ctrl + 0 resets zoom

Console Panel

Following shortcuts are to launch the Console panel and play from a special node forward:

  • F4 plays form the project's active entry after clearing the console
  • F5 plays from the scene's active entry after clearing the console
  • F6 opens the console with the state in which it was closed
  • F7 plays the last selected node (if any) without clearing the console

Project Management

  • Ctrl + S saves the open document
  • Ctrl + E quickly re-exports using path and format of the latest export if any

Revision/History Management

  • Ctrl + D takes a snapshot
  • Ctrl + Z dows undo the last applied update
  • Ctrl + Shift + Z does redo the last applied update

History behavior, still being an unpolished feature, is not active by default. To have it enabled, increase history size from the Preferences panel.

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