Chapter 2 Sybase Central Overview

Keyboard navigation

EAServer Manager and Security Manager both allow you to work without a pointing device. You can navigate with the keyboard as follows:

To activate menus Press the Alt key plus the underlined menu hotkey; for example, Alt+T displays the Tools menu. To navigate within a menu, use the arrow keys to move between items, and press Enter to activate the selected item. You can also press Alt plus the underlined hotkey to activate items within the menu.
To move the focus between main window components Press the Tab key to move the focus between parts of the main window. The tab order is:
1. The active component pull-down, in the upper-left corner below the menu bar.
2. The tree view, below the active component pull-down.
3. Details view header, which is the single details tab over the right pane, where details show for the item you have highlighted in the tree view.
4. Details view data, the right window pane where Sybase Central shows detail items for the item you have highlighted in the tree view.
Press Shift+Tab to move the focus to the previous component in the list.
To navigate in the tree view and details view The tree view, in the left pane of Sybase Central, allows you to navigate through the entities and interfaces that can be configured in EAServer. The details view shows detail items for the item that is highlighted in the tree view. To navigate through items in these view, first move the focus to the tree view or Detail view, then use these keys:
- Up arrow and down arrow – move between items in the tree. You can also type the first letter of the item, or the first two letters if the first letter is not unique. If items duplicate more than two initial letters, use the up and down arrow to navigate past the first match.
- Enter – collapse or expand items in the tree view.
- Alt+Enter – show properties for the selected item if the item has a Properties menu item. For example, components and servers.
- Alt+hotkey – activate menu items for the selected item.
To navigate in dialog boxes To navigate between controls in dialog boxes, press the Tab key to move the focus to the desired control. In tabbed dialogs, press Ctrl+Tab to move between tabs. You can activate or move the focus to a control by pressing Alt plus the control's underlined hotkey. To activate buttons, place the focus on the button and press the spacebar. You can display online help for the displayed dialog by pressing F1 or by placing the focus on the help button and pressing the spacebar. You can cancel the dialog by pressing Escape or navigating to the Cancel button and pressing the spacebar.
In most cases, pressing Enter activates the OK button. The exception is when the focus is on another button that is not a Next, Previous, Finish, or Cancel button. With the focus on these buttons, pressing Enter may activate the button with the focus. Any button can be activated by navigating the focus to it and pressing the spacebar.

Navigating in the help viewer Table 2-1 describes keyboard navigation in the help viewer.

Table 2-1: Keyboard navigation in the help viewer
To do this	Use these keys
Navigate the focus through the toolbar buttons, table-of-contents pane, and search pane	Ctrl+Tab to move the focus forwards and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to move backwards. On most systems, toolbar buttons indicate that they have the focus by showing a dotted line around the button label. You can also press Ctrl+F1 to show tooltip text for the button that has the focus. When the table-of-contents pane has the focus, there is a dotted line around the book icon in the tab. When the search pane has the focus, it displays over the table-of-contents pane with a blinking cursor in the search text input field.
Navigate between topics displayed in the table-of-contents pane	Place the focus in the table-of-contents pane as described above. The text pane displays the text associated with the highlighted topic in the table of contents. Use the up and down arrow keys to display the previous and next topics, respectively. You can use Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End to scroll quickly through the list of topics. Topics with a + sign can be expanded to display subtopics. To navigate to subtopics, highlight the parent topic, press Enter, then navigate with the down and up arrow keys.
Search for text	Place the focus in the search pane as described above. Type the text to search for, then press Enter. When the results appear, the first topic is displayed. To navigate through the topics, press Tab once to move the focus to the list of results, then use the Up Arrow, Down Arrow, Page Down, Page Up, Home, and End keys to scroll through the results.
Place the focus in the text (right) pane	Place the focus in the table-of-contents pane or search pane, then press F6. Press F6 again to move the focus back to the left pane. Alternatively, place the focus in the text entry field on the search pane, then press Tab twice.
Navigate in the text pane	Place the focus in the text pane as described above. To scroll, use the Page Up, Page Down, Down Arrow, Up Arrow, Home, and End keys. To move the focus to hyperlinks, use Ctrl+T to move the focus to the next hyperlink, and Ctrl+Shift+T to move the focus to the previous hyperlink. To follow the hyperlink that has the focus, press Ctrl+spacebar.
Activate a toolbar button (Back, Forward, Print, Page setup)	Place the focus on the button, press the spacebar.
Move the splitter bar.	Place the focus in the table-of-contents pane, search pane, or text pane. Press F8 to place the focus on the splitter bar. Use the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys to move the splitter bar.