Menu

The Menu on the Main Screen provides access to all the available functions and actions that Solar Fire can perform. Some menu items can be activated by shortcuts – either particular key combinations, or via Toolbar buttons, or the "Current Settings" panel.

One form of shortcut are "short-cut keys", which are usually the function keys on the keyboard (e.g. F2, F3 ... etc) or a combination of keys held down together (e.g. the "Ctrl" key and the "P" key, or the "Shift" key and the function key "F1" ...). You press and hold down the first key, and while continuing to hold it down you then press the second key in the pair, then release both keys.

When you click on a menu (e.g. the Chart menu at the top left of the Main Screen) you can see all the short-cut keys (for the menu items that have short-cut keys) to the right of the menu item. When the short-cut key is actually a two key combination it is written in this format: key1 + key2 e.g. Ctrl+F2. Mostly the descriptions of the keys match the actual text on the keyboard keys themselves, but not always. For instance, on the Chart menu the "Delete..." menu item has a short-cut key of "Del". On some keyboards the actual delete key may have "Delete" written on it, although often it will just have "Del" written on it.

See Short-Cut Keys for a full listing.