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Keyboard

The Keyboard is used for command line input and specifying the type of entities when selecting them with the mouse pointer. The command line is preferable in situations where pure mouse operation is not convenient (i.e. to define a certain value) or for batch controlled operations. Therefore most commands are only available over the command line. The stream coming from the keyboard is echoed in the parent-xterm but during typing the mouse pointer must stay inside the main window. Otherwise the commands will not be recognized by the program.

The following special keys are used:

    Special Keys:
     ARROW_UP:   previous command
     ARROW_DOWN: next command
     PAGE_UP:    entities of previous set (if the last command was
                 plot or plus) or the previous Loadcase
     PAGE_DOWN:  entities of next set (if the last command was
                 plot or plus) or the next Loadcase