To choose commands from global menus with the mouse, click the desired title on the menu bar to display the menu, then click the desired menu command. You can also drag straight from the menu title down to the menu command. Release the mouse button on the command you want. (If you change your mind, just drag off the menu; no command will be chosen.)
To choose the active window's local menu commands, click the mouse's right button to pop up the local menu, then click the desired menu command.
Turbo Pro filer offers many quick ways to choose menu commands. For example, with a mouse you can combine the two-step process into one: Drag from the menu title down to the menu commands, then release the mouse button when the command you want is selected.
From the keyboard, you can use keyboard shortcuts (or hot keys) to access the menu bar and choose commands. Here's a list of the shortcuts available:
Press this shortcut ...
Ctrl and the highlighted letter of the local menu command
Aft plus the highlighted letter of the menu command The highlighted
letter of the dialog box component
The hot key combination listed next to a menu command.
To accomplish this ...
Carry out the local menu command
Display a menu from the menu bar Execute that menu command or select that dialog box component Carry out the menu command
windows
Most of what you see and do in the Turbo Pro filer environment happens in a window. A window is an area of the screen that you can move, resize, zoom, layer, close, and open.You can have many windows open in Turbo Pro filer (memory allowing), but only one window can be active at any time. The
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Figure 4.1 A typical window
active window is the one that you're currently working in. Any command you choose or text you type applies only to the active window.
Turbo Pro filer makes it easy to spot the active window by placing a double-lined border around it. The active window always has a close box. If your windows are overlapping, the active window is also the one on top of all the others (the front most one).
There are several types of windows, but most of them have these seven things in common: a title bar, a close box, two scroll bars, a resize comer, a zoom box, an iconize box, and a window number (1 to 9).
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Window management Some windows are divided into two or more panes for displaying different kinds of information. Individual panes often have their own local menu.
Table 4.1: ManIpulatIng windows
To accomplish this ...
Open a window Close a window Activate a window
The following table provides a quick rundown of how to handle windows in Turbo Profiler. You can perform these actions with a mouse or the keyboard.
Use one of these methods ...
Choose View to open a profiler window that's not already open.
Choose Close from the Window menu or press Aft-F3, or Click the window's close box.
Click anywhere in the window, or
Press Alt plus the window number (1 to 9, in the upper right border of the window), or
Choose Window and select the window from the list at the bottom of the menu, or
Choose Next from the Window menu (or press F6) to make the next window active (next in the order you first opened them).
View the window's contents Use the cursor keys to scroll the window up and down or left and right, or
Move the active window
Resize the active window
Zoom the active window
Use the mouse to operate the scroll bars:
• Click the direction arrows at the ends of the bar to move one line or one character in the indicated direction.
• Click the gray area in the middle of the bar to move one window size in the indicated direction.
• Drag the scroll box to move as much as you want in the direction you want.
Drag its title bar, or any border character (=)s that is not a scroll bar.
Choose Size/Move from the Window menu (or press Ctrl-F5), use the arrow keys to place the window where you want it, then press Enter.
Drag the resize corner.
Choose Size/Move from the Window menu (or press Ctrl-FS), press Shift-(arrow key) to change the size of the window, then press Enter, or Drag the right or bottom border to resize the window in that direction only.
Click the zoom box, or
Double-click the window's title bar, or
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Table 4.1: Manipulating windows (continued)
Choose Zoom from the Window menu, or press F5.
Iconize the active window Click the iconize box, or
Choose Iconize/Restore from the Window menu.
When a window is fully zoomed, it has only an iconize box.([.]) When it is iconized, it has only a zoom box ([ t D.
Move from pane to pane Press Tab or Shift-Tab, or Choose Window I Next Pane.