The information below explains how to use the keyboard and mouse in each of the graph-viewing modes.
Changing Modes
Most of the icons in the vertical mode toolbar have multiple options that you can access by clicking and holding the left mouse button on the mode icon. After briefly holding down the mouse button over the icon, a mode option menu will pop-up to the right. To select an option from the option menu, drag the mouse cursor over to the desired mode option and then release the mouse button.
For All Modes
- The Home key resets rotation, zoom and pan back to their default values.
- Holding down the middle mouse button and dragging the mouse provides interactive rotation.
- Place the mouse cursor over a data item (without clicking) to see information about that item.
All Selection Modes (Standard and User-defined)
- Left mouse button click selects individual items.
- Holding down and dragging the left mouse button creates a box around the items to be selected.
- Control-left-mouse button click adds the item under the mouse cursor (or in the box) to the list of selections.
User-defined Selection Mode
In addition to the standard selection behavior, user-defined selection mode will send your selections to a user-defined process, such as the white blood cell viewer described in the Partek on-line tutorial.
Zoom Modes
- Use left-mouse-button clicks to incrementally zoom in and Control-left-mouse clicks to zoom back out.
- Holding down and dragging the left mouse button creates a box around the items you want to zoom in on. Releasing the button zooms in on those items.
Panning Mode
Hold down the left-mouse button while dragging the mouse to interactively move the data (pan).
Manual Rotation Mode
Hold down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse to interactively rotate the view.
Continuous Rotation Mode
Click the left mouse button to stop and restart rotation. Selecting any other mode also stops rotation.