Use the function keys and special keys as shortcuts for pull down
choices. HCM offers the following keyboard functions:
- F1
- Opens the Help dialog.
- F2
- Shortcut for the Fit to Window command,
which scales the diagram to completely fit in the display window.
- F3
- Shortcut for most recently used named view saved with Save Named View from the View menu.
When selected, the current view will include only objects specified
by the named view.
- F4
- Shortcut for Highlighted Objects on the View menu. Crops the view to include only currently
selected objects and those objects which are either directly connected
to them or which are on a fiber link where the selected objects are
involved. The settings of the Change View
Attributes dialog are considered.
- SHIFT+F4
- Shortcut for Connected Objects on
the View menu. Crops the view to include
only the selected object plus the objects logically connected to this
object without considering the settings in the Change
View Attributes dialog.
Using SHIFT+F4, the diagram normally
contains less objects in the view than using F4.
- F5
- Opens the Assign Cable dialog for the
connection on the selected interface. Note that the interface at the lower end of the connection must be selected.
- F8
- Shortcut for the Locate Selected Object pull
down choice. This pull down choice scrolls the most recently selected
object into view – useful after creating an object.
- F9
- Opens the Edit dialog for the currently
selected object.
- F12
- Displays the previously saved view of a configuration diagram.
HCM saves a view whenever an object is included or excluded from the
current view.
- PAGE UP/DOWN
- Scrolls the diagram up or down a screen at a time. Can move
the display to the left half of a screen at a time with CTRL+PAGE UP, or to the right half with CTRL+PAGE DOWN.
- HOME
- Zooms out.
- CTRL+HOME
- Zooms out all the way to Fit to Window (same
as F2).
- END
- Zooms in.
- CTRL+END
- Zooms in all the way to Actual Size, which
scales the diagram so that objects are viewed at their approximate
size when a diagram is printed at full size.
- ALT+BACKSPACE
- Shortcut for Undo most recent action.
- DEL
- Shortcut for Delete selected object. If
the selected object is a connected channel interface or a switch port
connected to a CHPID, the interface will be disconnected.