Keyboard Shortcuts

For quick access to often-used functions, the DATAFLOW Designer provides the following keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut

Action

Remarks

Ctrl + A

Selects all items in current editor window.

 

Ctrl + Shift + A

Clears selection.

 

Ctrl + B

Toggle Bold text format.

Text must be selected

Ctrl + Shift + B

Build Project.

Generated Code.

Ctrl + Alt + B

Moves selected element back.

 

Shift + Alt + B

Moves selected element to background.

 

Alt + B

Change line routing to Bezier.

Connection line must be selected.

Ctrl + C

Copies the selected items to the clipboard.

 

Ctrl + Shift + C

Compile Project

Compiles generated code. Only for internal toolchain.

Alt + C

Change line routing to Custom.

Connection line must be selected.

Alt + D

Change line routing to Direct.

Connection line must be selected.

Ctrl + E

Opens the diagrams from selected content.

 

Ctrl + Shift + E

Edits the element in the editor inline.

 

Ctrl + Alt + E

Show/Hide the System Explorer window.

 

Alt + E

Toggles Align elements to other elements.

 

Ctrl + F

Find text in current editor window.

 

Ctrl + Shift + F

Find text in project.

 

Ctrl + Alt + F

Moves the selected element to front.

 

Shift + Alt + F

Moves the selected element to foreground.

 

Ctrl + G

Toggles the grid line visibility.

 

Alt + G

Toggles Align elements to grid.

 

Ctrl + H

Replace text in current editor window.

 

Ctrl + Shift + H

Replace text in project.

 

Alt + H

Distributes selected elements horizontally.

 

Ctrl + I

Toggle Italic text format.

Text must be selected

Ctrl + J

Displays the Application Options dialog.

 

Ctrl + K

Displays the Project Settings dialog.

 

Ctrl + L

Toggles label visibility.

An element with a label must be selected.

Alt + L

Resets the label position.

An element with a label must be selected.

Ctrl + Alt + M

Displays Message List window.

 

Ctrl +N

Opens create new Project dialog.

 

Ctrl + O

Opens a browse dialog to open an existing Designer project.

 

Ctrl + Alt + O

Displays the Output window.

 

Alt + O

Change line routing to Orthogonal.

Connection line must be selected.

Ctrl + Alt + P

Displays the Property Inspector window.

 

Ctrl + Q

Closes the open project

 

Ctrl + R

Navigates to the parent diagram

 

Ctrl + S

Saves the project at the current location.

 

Ctrl + Shift + S

Saves the project to a new location.

 

Alt + S

Change line routing to Spline.

Connection line must be selected.

Ctrl + T

Toggle Striked-trough text format.

Text must be selected

Ctrl + Alt + T

Displays Toolbox window.

 

Ctrl + U

Toggle Underlined text format.

Text must be selected

Ctrl + V

Pastes the copied items to the active diagram

 

Alt + V

Distributes selected elements vertically.

 

Ctrl + Alt + W

Closes the current pane.

 

Ctrl + W

Closes the active editor window.

 

Ctrl + X

Cuts the selected items to the clipboard.

 

Ctrl + Shift + X

Export project to PDF.

 

Ctrl + Y

Redoes the action.

 

Ctrl + Z

Undoes the last action.

 

Ctrl + Alt + Z

Zooms to 100%.

 

Ctrl + PLUS

Zooms in on the diagram.

 

Ctrl - MINUS

Zooms out in the diagram.

 

Delete

Deletes the selected items.

 

Ctrl + Space

Auto fits the active page.

 

Ctrl + Arrow Left

Aligns selected items to left.

 

Ctrl + Arrow Right

Aligns selected items to right.

 

Ctrl + Arrow Top

Aligns selected items to top.

 

Ctrl + Arrow Bottom

Aligns selected items to bottom.

 

F1

Opens Help Dialog.

 

F2

Edit element at current location (e.g. rename).

 

F3

Show next find result in current editor.

 

Shift + F3

Show previous find result in current editor.

 

F4

Show next find result in project.

 

Shift + F4

Select previous find result in project.

 

Alt + F4

Exit Application.

 

F5

Run Project.

Executes compiled code. Only for internal toolchain.

Shift + F5

Terminate Running project.

 

Arrow Up

Moves diagram element 10px up.

Moves list element one position up.

 

Arrow Down

Moves diagram element 10px down.

Moves list element one position down.

 

Arrow Left

Moves diagram element 10px to the left.

 

Arrow Right

Moves diagram element 10px to the right.

 

Shift + Arrow Up

Moves element to the top of list.

 

Shift + Arrow Down

Moves element to the bottom of list.

 

Alt + Arrow Up

Moves diagram element 2px up.

 

Alt + Arrow Down

Moves diagram element 2px down.

 

Alt + Arrow Left

Moves diagram element 2px to the left.

 

Alt + Arrow Right

Moves diagram element 2px to the right.

 

 

Required Module: DATAFLOW Designer

This Article has been written based on V2.1.1 of the DATAFLOW software. 
Latest update 2023-05-31 by WUM.