Using the Electric VLSI Design System

Chapter I: INTRODUCTION

| ## 8: The Mouse |

Electric supports a number of different mouse configurations on different platforms. It presumes that Macintosh mice have 1-button, PC mice have 2, and UNIX mice have 2 or 3 (only 2 are used). In addition, it allows different keys to be combined with the clicks for advanced functions.

To simplify this manual, each of the different mouse commands is given a name. The table below shows the actual button and key combinations for each named mouse command.

For example, the selection button is used to highlight objects on the display. On systems with 1-button mice (i.e. Macintosh), the selection button is a plain click of the button, but on systems with two or three buttons, the selection button is the left button.

Here are a list of all mouse commands and their button/keyboard combinations:

Command | UNIX Three-Button | Windows Two-Button | Macintosh One-Button
Selection
Toggle Select
Select Another
Toggle Select Another
Special Select
Toggle Special Select
Special Select Another
Toggle Special Select Another
Information
Creation
Rectangle Select
Rectangle Zoom
Wire/Technology Edit
Constrained Move
|  |  | left
shift |  |  | left
| ctrl |  | left
shift | ctrl |  | left
|  | meta | left
shift |  | meta | left
| ctrl | meta | left
shift | ctrl | meta | left
DOUBLE | left
|  |  | right
|  | meta | right
shift |  | meta | right
shift |  |  | right
| ctrl |  | right
|  |  | left
shift |  |  | left
| ctrl |  | left
shift | ctrl |  | left
|  | alt | left
shift |  | alt | left
| ctrl | alt | left
shift | ctrl | alt | left
DOUBLE | left
|  |  | right
|  | alt | right
shift |  | alt | right
shift |  |  | right
| ctrl |  | right
|  |  |  | click
shift |  |  |  | click
| ctrl |  |  | click
shift | ctrl |  |  | click
|  |  | opt | click
shift |  |  | opt | click
| ctrl |  | opt | click
shift | ctrl |  | opt | click
DOUBLE | click
|  | cmd |  | click
|  | cmd | opt | click
shift |  | cmd | opt | click
shift |  | cmd |  | click
| ctrl | cmd |  | click

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