Help Viewer Navigation Using the Keyboard

Most of the features of the help viewer are accessible from the keyboard. Navigation in general follows the Java Look and Feel Guidelines: see Keyboard Shortcuts and Mnemonics for a summary of the navigation keystrokes.

The Performance Analyzer has context-sensitive help for all of its tabs. You can use the F1 key to display the help topic for the tab that has focus. Make sure that focus is in the content pane of the tab before pressing F1.

The following table lists the keystrokes needed to navigate the help viewer. Keyboard focus is not always clearly shown in the two panes. The traversal order goes from the toolbar to the selected tab to the left content pane and then to the right pane.

Keys Action
Ctrl-Tab Shift focus to the next component.
Ctrl-Shift-Tab Shift focus to the previous component.

Up arrow

Select the previous item in the TOC or the index.

Move a splitter bar left or up.

Down arrow

Select the next item in the TOC or the index.

Move a splitter bar right or down.

Left arrow

Shift focus to the previous tab or the previous button.

Close a folder in the TOC or the index.

Move the splitter bar to the left.

Right arrow

Shift focus to the next tab or the next button.

Open a folder in the TOC or the index.

Move the splitter bar to the right.

Ctrl-left arrow Scroll to the left.
Ctrl-right arrow Scroll to the right.
Home Select the first item in the TOC or the index.
End Select the last item in the TOC or the index.
Page Up Scroll up one page.
Page Down Scroll down one page.
Ctrl-T Shift focus to the next link in a topic.
Ctrl-Shift-T Shift focus to the previous link in a topic.
Ctrl-spacebar Follow a link in a topic.
Ctrl-F1 Display alternate text for a toolbar button.
F6 Shift focus between left and right panes.

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