Interacting with Xastir

In addition to the normal use of the top menu bar, Xastir supports additional mouse and keyboard interactions in the map window.

Context-Dependent Operations in the map window

The top row of this table refers to the mode of operation. The "Cursor" row describes what the cursor looks like when in that mode. Each following row describes what the operation on the left hand column performs.

	Normal	Draw-Cad	Measure	Move
Cursor	Arrow	Pencil	Crosshairs	Crosshairs
LeftClick				SelectObject
LeftDrag	ZoomToArea	ZoomToArea	MeasureArea	MoveObject
MiddleClick	ZoomOut	SetCADPoint	ZoomOut	ZoomOut

Alt-F, Alt-V, etc to bring up main menus via the keyboard. Use arrow keys to navigate menus and/or single letters corresponding to the "hot" letter (underlined letter) for each menu item.

"ESC" to back out of the menu system.

Global Mouse and Keyboard Operations

Action	Function
LeftClick	Select Menu or GUI Item (when in menus or dialogs)
LeftDblClick	FetchAlertText (when in View->Wx Alerts dialog)
RightClick	OptionsMenu
Home	Center the map on your home station
PageUp	ZoomOut
PageDown	ZoomIn
ArrowUp	PanUp
ArrowDown	PanDown
ArrowLeft	PanLeft
ArrowRight	PanRight
"="	GridSize++
"+"	GridSize++
"Num+"	GridSize++
"-"	GridSize--
"Num-"	GridSize--
"Space"	Activate current widget
"Tab"	Rotate among widgets
"Back-Tab"	Rotate among widgets backwards