General Window Interactivity

The Escape Button

If you want to stop any processing at any time, hit the Esc button.


Help Information

There are two ways to get information about the interface

 

Resizing Windows

You can resize any window by grabbing its border and dragging. If you drag an intersection, you can move in two directions at once.

 


Expanding a Window

You can pop up any window just by hitting the Space bar. To zoom it back down, hit the Space bar again.



This is especially helpful when you are using the Curve Editor, working with high-resolution elements, or large scripts.



Panning a Window

You can pan in any window by dragging either Alt+left button, or just the middle button.



Zooming a Window

You can zoom in on the Node View and Viewers with Ctrl+middle button or Ctrl+Alt+left button. Hit Home to reset the display to 1:1 viewing. You can also use the +/- keys, and the window will zoom in on where the cursor is.


Arranging Tabs

You can rearrange the tabs by dragging them with the middle button or Alt+left button, and then dragging it to a new window pane. If you Shift+middle button or Shift+Alt+left button 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 hit 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 hit Ctrl+T - this will pop a floating tweaker window:.

Close the tab tear off 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.


OS Window functions

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.