Edit menu, Tools menu – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 1

An Overview of the Shake User Interface

Edit Menu

The following table shows the Edit menu options.

Tools Menu

The Tools menu provides a menu listing for each of the nodes in the Tool tabs (for
example, Image, Color, Filter, and so on). You can also right-click a tab to display the
tools list. More information about each of these nodes is available in Part II of this
manual.

Menu Option

Description

Undo (Command-Z or
Control-Z)

Redo (Command-Y or Control-Y)

Undoes previous commands; up to 100 levels of undo. Layout,
viewing, and parameter changes are saved in the Undo list. You can
also click the Undo/Redo button.

You can change the amount of undo/redo levels in your ui.h file.
See “

Menus and the Title Bar

” on page 31 for more information. If

you do an Undo and you have not changed anything, click Redo to
go back to your previous settings.

Find Nodes (Command-F or
Control-F)

Opens the Select Nodes by Name window that allows you to
dynamically select nodes that match your criteria in the search
string.

Select by name. Nodes that match the search string are
immediately activated. For example, if you enter f, FileIn1 and
Fade1 are selected. If you enter fi, just FileIn1 is selected.

Select by type. Select nodes by type. For example, enter Move,
and all Move2D and Move3D nodes are selected.

Select by expression. Allows you to enter an expression. For
example, to find all nodes with an angle parameter greater than
180, enter:
angle>180

Match case. Sets case sensitivity.

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