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Keyboard shortcuts and menus

Every menu of Verbinal, and every keyboard shortcut, by where it works. The menus Verbinal shares with every Mac app (Edit, Window) work as usual.

Verbinal

Item Shortcut What it does
About Verbinal The version, and the details for a bug report
Settings… ⌘, Settings
Quit Verbinal ⌘Q

File

Item Shortcut What it does
Export All… ⇧⌘E Export Data: your observations, notes and searches as a bundle

View

These work in the FITS Viewer.

Item Shortcut
Zoom In ⌘+
Zoom Out ⌘-
Actual Size ⌥⌘1
Zoom to Fit ⌥⌘0

Go

Item Shortcut
Landing (Home) ⌘0
Search ⌘1
Research ⌘2
FITS Viewer ⌘3
Cube Viewer ⌘4
Workflows
Portal ⌘5
Storage ⌘6
AI Guide ⌘7
Image Discovery… ⌘8

Portal and Storage ask you to sign in first when you are signed out.

Help

Item Shortcut What it does
What Verbinal Can Do… An overview of the main features
Connect an AI Agent… The assistant setup
Verbinal Help ⌘? Verbinal's page on GitHub, which leads to this manual
Report an Issue A new issue on GitHub

Shortcuts by screen

Everywhere

Shortcut What it does
⌘B Show or hide the file browser
⌘, Settings
Esc Close a dialog; close every hint an assistant put up
Shortcut What it does
⌘↩ Search
⇧⌘↩ Execute the ADQL query
⌘F Filter the results by a column
⌘[ and ⌘] Previous and next page of results
⇧⌘E The results' Export menu (also File ▸ Export All…)

Research

Shortcut What it does
⌘O Open the selected observation's file
⇧⌘R Reveal it in the Finder
⌘⌫ Delete the observation

FITS Viewer

Shortcut What it does
⌘T New tab
⌘W Close the tab
⇧⌘L Search the archive at the crosshair
⇧⌘B Blink
Space, ←, → During blink: pause, image A, image B
Esc Clear the crosshair; stop blinking

Cube Viewer

Key What it does
← and → Previous and next channel (with Shift: ten)
Space Play or pause the channels
V Switch between Slice and Volume
R Reset the window

Storage

Shortcut What it does
⌘R Refresh the folder
⇧⌘N New folder
⌘⌫ Delete the selected item

Portal and Image Discovery

Shortcut What it does
⌘R Refresh the batch jobs, or a probe's logs
⌘⌫ Clear every package filter
⇧⌘C Copy a probe's failure, or an image's manifest
↩ Use This Image

Remote Compute and the AI Guide

Shortcut What it does
⌘↩ Run the code (Remote Compute); save a tool description (AI Guide)

First launch

Shortcut What it does
⌘Q Quit instead of accepting the Terms of Use