Reading your keys
Vixlo keeps its own list of shortcuts inside the app, read from the keys you actually have — change a key and the list changes with it. This page is about reading them; Changing a key is about changing them.
Your keys, at the foot of the side panel
At the foot of the side panel's rail, directly under the account button, is a keyboard icon called Your keys. Hover it and it says Your keys — click for the list · hold ? for a quick peek. Click it and a small panel opens upward from the button.
Three other doors open the same panel:
- press
?(a tap, not a hold — see below); - choose Help ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts from the menu bar;
- choose Keyboard shortcuts… from the ⋯ menu at the right-hand end of the views line.
The panel is headed Your keys and lists the eight keys a hand uses most, each with the key that does it:
| Row | Vixlo key |
|---|---|
| Take | T |
| Hold | H |
| Reject | R |
| Clear to undecided | U |
| Focus check · Frames: hold to magnify | Z |
| Full screen | Space |
| Frames, the grid | G |
| Compare | C |
C is a toggle: it opens Compare, and pressed in Compare it brings you back to Single. See Keys in Compare.
Under them are three gestures the panel cannot write as keys:
- Double-click a frame in Frames opens it in the Pass (it shows Single, even if you left the pass on Compare);
- ⌘-scroll or pinch resizes the cells; the sheet remembers;
- ⌘-scroll or pinch zooms about the pointer, up to eight times fit.
At the bottom is one button, Change them: Vixlo ▸ Keyboard…, which closes the panel and opens the sheet where a key is changed.
The keys still work while the panel is open. It is not a dialog: press T and the frame is a Take, press G and Frames opens, with the list still on screen to read from. To close it, press Esc, click its ✕, click the keyboard button again, or click anywhere else — and that click still lands where you aimed it, so clicking a pane tab while the panel is up both opens the pane and closes the panel.
Holding ? for the whole map
Hold ? down and the whole map appears over the photograph for exactly as long as you hold the key. Let go and it is gone; there is nothing to close and nothing to click. A tap of ? (under a fifth of a second) opens the panel above instead; a hold shows this. On a US keyboard ? is ⇧/; releasing ⇧ first does not end the peek, which ends when the / key comes up.
The map is five groups — Deciding, Looking, Moving, Proposals, In a stack — and every row reads your own keys, so a key you changed shows as you set it. An action with no key at all shows —. Rows drawn dimmer are fixed strokes nobody can change: the mouse gestures, Esc, ⇧⌘E, and what the arrows do inside an open stack. The line at the foot says so: Hold ? for this peek · click the keyboard in the panel foot to keep it open. Dimmed strokes are fixed; the rest are yours.
? itself is not in the map, and no row in the Keyboard sheet belongs to it. The sheet will record ? if you press it on a row, but that action then never happens, because ? always opens your keys first — so leave ? to itself. If the panel is already open, pressing ? closes it.
Two rules for the keys in your map
The keys are for looking at and deciding on photographs, not for typing. While a sheet is open, or while the cursor is in a text field (the search field, a keyword, a note), the single keys in your map — T, G, Z and the rest — do nothing, and ⌘K does nothing either. Close the sheet or click out of the field and they are back. The menu bar's own shortcuts, such as ⌘O or ⌘1, are not in the map and work whenever their menu item is enabled.
Six ⌘ chords in the map are menu shortcuts as well, and a ⌘ chord reaches the menu even from a text field: ⇧⌘E (Edit takes), ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z (Edit ▸ Undo and Redo), and ⌘↩, ⌥⌘↩ and ⇧⌘↩ (View ▸ Accept proposals, Accept all proposals and Confirm bets). Each works whenever its menu item is enabled, wherever the cursor is. A menu item is greyed out while a sheet is open and while the gallery plays, and some are greyed out when there is nothing for them to do: Redo until something has been undone, the two Accepts when nothing is acceptable (and on the edit page), Confirm bets when no bet is waiting. A greyed-out item's key does nothing. Typed in the search field or a keyword, ⌘Z does not undo your typing: it undoes the last culling decision, and the message reads Last culling decision restored.
A letter is a plain letter. Holding ⌘, ⌃ or ⌥ with a letter does nothing unless that combination is itself a shortcut (⌘Z, ⇧⌘Z and ⌘K are). ⇧ with a letter means the plain letter — ⇧R is still Reject — unless the shifted key has a meaning of its own: ⇧T is Additional Take and ⇧H is Hold both. Those two never fall back to the plain letter. ⇧T works only inside an open stack and ⇧H only while Compare is on screen with a proposed pair in it (see Keys in Compare); anywhere else they do nothing at all.