Control Key Shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts are available for the main BabelMap window. They allow you to navigate to the most commonly used controls using the keyboard only.
- Ctrl+0 : Checks the "Simple Rendering" checkbox.
- Ctrl+1 : Checks the "Single Font" radio button.
- Ctrl+2 : Checks the "Composite Font" radio button.
- Ctrl+9 : Unchecks the "Simple Rendering" checkbox.
- Ctrl+B : Sets focus on the Unicode Blocks dropdown list.
- Ctrl+E : Sets focus on the Edit Buffer.
- Ctrl+F : Sets focus on the Fonts dropdown list (if in single font mode).
- Ctrl+G : Sets focus on the Go to Code Point edit control.
- Ctrl+K : Same as Ctrl+S.
- Ctrl+M : Sets focus on the Character Map grid.
- Ctrl+Q : Opens the Character Properties dialog for the currently selected character. Same as F9.
- Ctrl+Shift+Q : Opens the Extended Character Properties dialog for the currently selected character. Same as Shift+F9.
- Ctrl+S : Sets focus on the Search edit control.
Character Grid Shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts are available when focus is on the character grid.
- Left : Moves focus to the previous cell.
- Right : Moves focus to the next cell.
- Ctrl+Left : Moves focus to the first cell on the current row.
- Ctrl+Right : Moves focus to the last cell on the current row.
- Up : Moves focus to the cell immediately above the current cell.
- Down : Moves focus to the cell immediately below the current cell.
- Ctrl+Up : Scrolls the character grid up by one row, but keeps the focus on the same cell.
- Ctrl+Down : Scrolls the character grid down by one row, but keeps the focus on the same cell.
- Home : Moves focus to the first cell in the current page (top left cell).
- End : Moves focus to the last cell in the current page (bottom right cell).
- Shift+Home : Moves focus to the first code point in the current block.
- Shift+End : Moves focus to the last code point in the current block.
- Ctrl+Home : Moves focus to the first code point in the first plane (i.e. U+0000).
- Ctrl+End : Moves focus to the last code point in the last configured plane (i.e. U+10FFFF if BabelMap is configured to show all allocated planes).
- Page Up : Scrolls the character grid up by one page (i.e. 8 rows of 16 characters), but keeps the focus on the same cell. Same as pressing the < button.
- Page Down : Scrolls the character grid down by one page (i.e. 8 rows of 16 characters), but keeps the focus on the same cell. Same as pressing the > button.
- Ctrl+Page Up : Moves focus to the first code point in the previous block. Same as pressing the << button.
- Ctrl+Page Down : Moves focus to the first code point in the next block. Same as pressing the >> button.
- Ctrl+Shift+Page Up : Moves focus to the first code point in the previous plane. Same as pressing the <<< button.
- Ctrl+Shift+Page Down : Moves focus to the first code point in the next plane. Same as pressing the >>> button.
Function Keys
The following function keys are shortcuts for common functions.
- F1 : Launches the online help pages for BabelMap.
- F2 : Jumps to the character after the caret in the edit buffer, or to the character before the caret if it is at the end of a line. This feature can be used to identify an unknown character copied from another application or from the internet: open BabelMap and paste the unknown character into the edit buffer, then press F2, and the character map grid will move focus to the unknown character. Note that if the unknown character is actually a sequence of two or more characters that are displayed as a single glyph this feature will only identify one character in the sequence (depending upon where your caret is). To identify sequences of characters you are advised to use the BabelStone Unicode Text Identifier tool.
- F3 : Searches forward for the next character that matches the search term in the search box.
- Shift+F3 : Searches backward for the next character that matches the search term in the search box.
- F4 : Copies the contents of the edit buffer to the clipboard as plain text.
- Shift+F4 : Cuts the contents of the edit buffer to the clipboard as plain text.
- Ctrl+F4 : Copies the contents of the edit buffer to the clipboard as rich text (RTF format).
- Ctrl+Shift+F4 : Cuts the contents of the edit buffer to the clipboard as rich text (RTF format).
- F5 : Refreshes the contents of the edit buffer.
- Shift+F5 : Saves the contents of the edit buffer to file.
- F6 : Copies an image of the currently-selected character to the clipboard.
- Shift+F6 : Copies an outline image of the currently-selected character to the clipboard.
- F7 : Opens the Font Analysis utility, which analyses the Unicode coverage of the currently-selected font.
- F8 : Opens the Advanced Search dialog, which enables you to list all characters that match specified criteria.
- F9 : Opens the Character Properties dialog for the currently selected character.
- Shift+F9 : Opens the Extended Character Properties dialog for the currently selected character.
- Ctrl+F9 : Opens the Ideographic Properties dialog for the currently selected character. This feature is only available for CJK unified ideographs, Tangut ideographs, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- F11 : Opens the Han Radical Lookup tool, which enables you to find any CJK unified ideograph by its radical and stroke count.
- Shift+F11 : Opens the Yi Radical Lookup tool, which enables you to find any Yi syllable by its radical and stroke count.
- F12 : Opens the Mandarin (pinyin) Lookup tool, which enables you to find CJK unified ideographs by their Mandarin pronunciation.
- Shift+F12 : Opens the Cantonese (jyutping) Lookup tool, which enables you to find CJK unified ideographs by their Cantonese pronunciation.
Other Shortcut Keys
- Insert : Sets a bookmark for the currently selected character.
- Ctrl+Del : Deletes any bookmark for the currently selected character.
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