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Guidelines for Mouse and Menu Operations
This excerpt from the guidelines pertains to the mouse operations for objects called "labels", which were similar to the cells in a spreadsheet. The second part defines the contents of the right mouse shortcut menu for areas in particular windows. The original guidelines were about 8 pages long.


Mouse and Menu Operations for Labels

This document defines guidelines for mouse operations, menu bar choices and short-cut menu choices for label objects. In this document, the term "label" refers to the widget that is used to group channels in the Format window.

Mouse Operations for Labels

"Click" is a mouse button press, immediately followed by a release. "Drag" means to press a mouse button, hold it down and move the mouse.

Mouse Operations
Operation Action for Labels
point no action
left click select
left press and hold armed for moving
left drag move
left double-click no action
   
right click shortcut menu (posted)
right press and hold shortcut menu (dismissed on button release)
right drag no action
   
shift + left click continuous multi-select (point-to point)
control + left click discontinuous multi-select
shift + left button drag continuous multi-select
control + left button drag continuous multi-select

Shortcut Menu Items for Labels

These are the items that should appear in the short-cut menu that is accessed via a right-mouse click.

Shortcut Menu Items for Labels
Listing Window Insert before
Insert after
Replace
Delete
Find label
Sequence Window Insert before
Insert after
Replace
Delete
Find label