Graphical Modeling Framework Key Bindings - Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language Toolkit - page 653

APPENDIX A

Graphical Modeling Framework Key Bindings

The Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) runtime provides many convenient
keyboard bindings and diagram-manipulation options using both the keyboard
and mouse. This table comes from the GMF's Help documentation and is copied
here for convenience.

Table A-1 Cycling between the Diagram Editor and Palette

Keyboard

Current State Key(s) Description New State

Diagram name in Tab Navigates to the palette Palette in focus

focus

Palette in focus Tab Navigates to the palette Palette Minimize

Minimize button. button in focus

Palette Minimize Tab Navigates to the palette Palette item in focus

button in focus items.

Palette item in Tab Navigates to the Diagram Diagram Editor in

focus Editor and places focus focus

on any selected item.

Diagram Editor Shift+Tab Navigates to the palette Palette item in

in focus items. The last palette item focus

used is selected; otherwise,
it defaults to the Select
option.

Palette item in Shift+Tab Navigates to the palette Palette Minimize

focus Minimize button. button in focus

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