Keyboard Support on Microsoft Windows
Many Uniface applications, including the Uniface IDE, run on Microsoft Windows platforms. Uniface provides the MSWINX keyboard translation table(KTT) as default to handle keyboard input on this platform. This translation table follows Windows conventions for navigation, and cut, copy, and paste actions.
For example:
- Most navigation keys, including the arrow keys and
the Page Up/Page Down keys conform to Microsoft
Windows conventions:
- Used with the Shift key, they extend a selection. Used without the Shift key, they move the cursor.
- Used with the Ctrl key, they move the cursor by larger increments.
- The block clipboard operations Cut selected text, Copy selected text, and Paste selected text can be performed by Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, and Ctrl+V, respectively.
- The Cut, Copy, and Paste clipboard operations can be done using the keyboard shortcuts Shift+Delete, Ctrl+Insert, and Shift+Insert, respectively.
Single-character GOLD combinations are also available as Ctrl combinations. Accelerators are not available for the SUPER key (GOLD+Space) sequences.
The following tables describe the default behavior Form widgets on Windows.
| Key | Use | With Shift | With Control | With Control+Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | Gold | - | - | - |
| * | View | - | - | - |
| Enter | - | - | Super | - |
| Insert | Insert/ Overstrike | Paste | Copy | Paste from file |
| Delete | Delete right Character | Cut | - | Cut to file |
| Backspace | Delete left Character | - | Delete right Character | - |
| Up | Cursor Up | Select Up | Fast Up | Fast Up Select |
| Down | Cursor Down | Select Down | Fast Down | Fast Down Select |
| Left | Cursor Left | Select Left | Word Left | Word Left Select |
| Right | Cursor Right | Select Right | Word Right | Word Right Select |
| Home | Start of Line | Select to line start |
- |
Select to Start |
| End | End of Line | Select to line end |
- |
Select to End |
| Page Down | Next Page | Select Next Page | Bottom of text | Select to end of text |
| Page Up | Previous Page | Select Previous Page | Top of text | Select to start of text |
| Key | With Alt | With Shift+Alt | With Control+Alt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insert | Add Occurrence | - | - |
| Delete | Delete Occurrence | - | - |
| Page Down | Next Occurrence | Next Screen | Last Occurrence |
| Page Up | Previous Occurrence | Previous Screen | First Occurrence |
| Key | Function | Use with Shift |
|---|---|---|
| F1 | Help | Compose Character |
| F2 | Accept | Clear |
| F3 | Store | Erase |
| F4 | Retrieve | - |
| F5 | Zoom | Quick Zoom |
| F6 | Print Setup | |
| F7 | Ruler | Frame |
| F8 | Find | Find Again |
| F9 | Keyboard Help | - |
| F10 | Pull-down | - |
| F11 | Message Frame | - |
| F12 | Debug | - |
