General Window Interactivity |
If you want to stop any processing at any time, press the Esc button.
There are two ways to get information about the interface:
You can resize any window by grabbing its border and dragging. If you drag
an intersection, you can move in two directions at once.
You can pop up any window by pressing the Space bar. To zoom it back down, press the Space bar again.
This is especially helpful when you are using the Curve Editor, working with high-resolution elements, or large scripts.
You can pan in any window by dragging either Alt+Left mouse, or just the Middle mouse.
You can zoom in on the Node View and Viewers with Ctrl+Middle mouse or Ctrl+Alt+Left mouse. Press Home to reset the display to 1:1 viewing. You can also use the +/- keys, and the window zooms in on where the cursor is.
Rearrange the tabs by dragging them with the Middle mouse or Alt+Left mouse, and then dragging it to a new window pane. If you Shift+Middle mouse or Shift+Alt+Left mouse on a tab, you can tear the tab off into a floating window. A good use for this is to tear a Parameter tab off, then press the Space Bar on the Viewer. You can then tune your image full screen.
A better, newer way to do this is to select the node you want to tune and press Ctrl+T in the Node View. This pops a floating parameter window:
Close the tear off tab to return it to its original place.
Under the Edit pulldown menu, you can save your window settings into a file, which can then be loaded at a later time.
Shake responds to OS windowing, so you can resize the entire window, expand it to full screen, or stow it as an icon by clicking on the buttons in the upper right of the Shake window title bar. No biggie.