Keyboard and mouse interactions
Navigation
The following is a list of mouse/touch/keyboard shortcuts that can be
used to interact with a figure.
We use the terms horizontal
, vertical
and
depth
axis. Kontrast automatically determines which of your
axes is horizontal
, vertical
or normal to the screen
(depth
) based on the current rotation of a graph.
Mouse interactions
| Mouse down + Drag |
Pan (i.e. shift) a single axis |
| Mouse move/hover |
Show a hover marker of the currently nearest data point
|
| Single mouse click |
Toggle the hover marker on or off |
| Double mouse click |
Make the hover marker persistent |
| Scroll |
Zoom in/out of both the current horizontal and vertical axes
|
| Ctrl + Scroll |
Zoom in/out of the current horizontal axes while leaving all other
axes unchanged
|
| Shift + Scroll |
Zoom in/out of the current vertical axes while leaving all other
axes unchanged
|
Context menu
right click
Ctrl + right click
|
Show context menu |
Shift + right click
Alt + right click
|
Show setup context menu |
| Esc |
Exit context menu |
Keyboard shortcuts
Axis shift
| Arrow left / Arrow right |
Shift both the minimum and the maximum of all horizontal axes
|
| Arrow up / Arrow down |
Shift both the minimum and the maximum of all vertical axes |
| Page up / Page down |
Shift both the minimum and the maximum of all depth (screen
normal) axes
|
Show everything/full range
|
1 / 2 / 3 (on the main keyboard,
not the number pad)
|
Change the ranges of all abscissae (1) or ordinates
(2) or applicates (3) so that they show
every data point. Internally this shortcut executes
showEverything() on the corresponding axes
|
| c / o / t |
Change the ranges of all color axes (c), opacity axes
(o) or thickness axes (t) so that they show
every data point. Internally this shortcut executes
showEverything() on the corresponding axes
|
| p |
Align tile plot to pixels (only works if there is a single tile
plot). Internally this shortcut executes
alignToPixels() on a tile plot
|
Show/hide/isolate graphs
| f |
Toggle full screen mode for figure (you can usually also exit the
fullscreen mode with Esc
|
| Ctrl + f |
Toggle full window mode for figure |
| g |
Only show the current graph |
| h |
Toggle the visibility of a graph (toggles the
hidden property)
|
| Ctrl + h |
Make all graphs visible (sets the hidden and
excludeFromLayout property to false)
|
Rotation/3D navigation
| a / d |
Increase or decrease the angle alpha |
| w / s |
Increase or decrease the angle beta |
| q / e |
Increase or decrease the angle gamma |