It's All About CTRL
February 24, 2017
Here's the first of a series of handy hints that I intend to publish over the coming weeks that will hopefully improve your experience when working with Vee-Hive.
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This one is all about the CTRL key and how it can be used to modify certain default behaviours within the program's interface.
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OK, so here we go...
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For openers, you are probably all aware that InfoTips (those things that pop-up when you hover over a thumbnail), can be configured within Options to show either Tag information or a file's Description. Well, what you probably don't know is that if you press down the CTRL key whilst the mouse-pointer is hovered, you will get the opposite behaviour to your preferred setting.
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Next up, the media player within the File Inspector: If you click on the Frame Advance button with CTRL held down, 'frame advance' becomes 'advance one second'. Comes in very handy, sometimes. Also applies to the Segment 'fine-tuning' A and B buttons: Even handier!
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And here's another one: the default behaviour when dragging and dropping text onto a thumbnail, is to attach that text as the file's description. With CTRL pressed at the time of the drop, it will, instead, set the Title.
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Finally, the Tag Cloud has a menu that allows you, good user, to determine the Categories that tags are displayed from. Sometimes, you may only wish to view the tags from a single category and it is somewhat time-consuming to de-select all the others. Never fear: A CTRL-click on the one you wish to keep will de-select all the others. Much faster!
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