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Buttons, Selectors, and Editable Selectors
SynthEyes uses similar graphics for buttons , which you push to activate something; selectors , where you choose one of several
items from a list, and editable selectors , where you can not only select something, but change its name. Note that selectors are sometimes called comboboxes or dropdowns.
As you can see, selectors and editable selectors have the triangle on the right, denoting the drop-down menu that allows you to select the item. Depending on a preference, the list might appear below the selector (Windows style) or placed so that the currently selected item is overtop of the selector (macOS style). The macOS version is selected by the default preference in Linux.
Editable selectors may be identified by the vertical line at their right interior, denoting that the selector is partitioned into two parts. To change the name of something, double-click the text itself, ie "Camera01."
When a list is dropped down, the selection follows the mouse position without changing the selection, as long as the mouse is inside the dropdown list. To use keyboard keys (up arrow, down arrow, home, end) or the mouse scroll wheel, move the cursor outside the dropped-down list, in order to prevent a conflict between the mouse position and key or scroll operation.
When a button is connected to an animated track, such as a tracker enable, right-clicking the button will delete a key, shift-click will truncate keys from the current frame on, and control-click will delete all keys.
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