Office of Digital Humanities
The LiveCode development environment is very powerful, with lots of menus, palettes, toolbars, etc. that let you create, edit and script objects. In fact, there are so many tools and capabilities available from these places that you can spend a lot of time moving from your keyboard to your mouse and moving the mouse around the screen to find the tool you need. To help speed things up, there are many keyboard shortcuts built into LiveCode. It can save you lots of time over the long run to learn some of the shortcuts for functionality that you use often. Here is a handy list of some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts.
Notes:
Mac Win/Unix/Linux go to the first card ⌘+1 control+1 go to the previous card ⌘+2 control+2 go to the next card ⌘+3 control+3 go to the last card ⌘+4 control+4 go to the recent card
(i.e., the card you were on before you came to the current one)⌘+5 control+5 go to the top or bottom of a field ⌘+up/down arrow control+up/down arrow
choose run (browse) tool ⌘+9 control+9 choose edit (pointer) tool ⌘+0 control+0 toggle between run and edit tools ⌘+option+tab control+alt+tab hide/show LiveCode palettes ⌘+control+tab control+tab display LiveCode contextual menus in run mode ⌘+shift+control+click control+shift+right click save all open stacks ⌘+option+S control+alt+S
create new card ⌘+N control+N select multiple controls shift+click on control select all controls ⌘+A control+A duplicate selected control ⌘+D control+D duplicate a control option+drag alt+drag open stack's property inspector ⌘+K control+K open a control's property inspector double click on control open selected control's property inspector return key nudge the selected control arrow keys nudge the selected control 10 pixels shift+arrow keys remove styles, colors, font settings from selected text in field ⌘+; control+; Alignment Shortcuts align edges of selected controls ⌘+option+arrow keys control+alt+arrow keys nudge the selected controls arrow keys equalize heights of selected controls ⌘+shift+= control+shift+= equalize widths of selected controls ⌘+= control+= Image Editing Magnify section of image at click point ⌘+click control+right click Make image editing tool apply transparency control+tool right click+tool Crop image ⌘+resize image control+resize image
open/close message box ⌘+M control+M clear message box ⌘+U control+U scroll through recent commands in message box up/down arrows scroll through recent commands in multiline message box opt+up/down arrow alt+up/down arrow execute statement (single line) return key execute statements (multiple lines) enter key execute statements (multiple lines) if no enter key ⌘+return control+return
open stack script ⌘+shift+S control+shift+S open card script ⌘+shift+C control+shift+C open script of selected control ⌘+E control+E open a control's script ⌘+option+click control+alt+click switch to find mode in script editor ⌘+F control+F put current selection into find box in script editor ⌘+option+F control+alt+F find next occurence of search term in script ⌘+G control+G go to line number ⌘+L control+L complete terms in script editor (pre-3.0) ⌘+number control+number format the current handler tab key look up a term in the Dictionary control+click right click apply (compile) changes to script enter key apply (compile) changes to script if no enter key ⌘+return control+return apply changes and close script editor enter key twice apply changes and save stack while in script editor ⌘+S control+S comment out selected lines ⌘+hyphen control+hyphen remove comments from selected lines ⌘+shift+hyphen control+shift+hyphen
stop a running handler ⌘+. control+. Revolution 2.9 and earlier debugger – step into next line space bar debugger – step over next line option+space bar alt+space bar debugger – run handler debugger – abort handler ⌘+. control+. Revolution 3.0 and later,including LiveCode debugger – step into next statement ⌘+ I control+ I debugger – step over next statement ⌘+O control+O debugger – step out of current handler ⌘+T control+T debugger – run handler ⌘+shift+> control+shift+> debugger – abort handler ⌘+Y control+Y