The RCB GUI supports keyboard shortcuts that generally allow you to navigate, make selections, and “click” buttons without a mouse. The particulars of this support are described in the following sections.

Accelerator keys are Alt-<char>, where <char> is the underlined character in the text associated with a particular control. For example, Alt-o presses the Options button to bring up the Options dialog, as indicated by the underlined “O” in the word “Options”.

Tab moves forward through the items.

Shift-Tab moves backward through the items.

Use the accelerator keys as described above, or

Sometimes the shadowing and dotted-line box appear on the same button, in which case you can use either Enter or the space bar.

For check boxes, the space bar toggles the selection.

For radio buttons, the space bar selects the item, but has no effect thereafter. The only way to deselect the radio button is to move to another radio button in the same set and select it.

The accelerator key for both has the same effect as pressing the space bar when the check box or radio button has the focus.

Right arrow expands a tree item.

Left arrow collapses a tree item.

Down arrow moves down one tree item.

Up arrow moves up one tree item.

On Windows:

Unix is the same except that the down arrow both exposes and moves down the list of items.

Alt-F4 dismisses the help window.