Shortcut menu
Shortcut menu
Clicking with the right mouse button in a window will display a menu with appropriate alternatives. Most of these alternatives are also available via the Menu bar.
The content of the shortcut menu depends on what is pointed by the cursor or selected in the window.
The Object menu
To display the object menu, right click on an object, either graphical or a member of a list or outline (except when the object is one of several selected) or select an object and right click in any place with the Shift key pressed
The Object menu contains operations appropriate to the pointed object. The list of alternatives depends on the nature of the object. Here is the full list of alternatives supported by IDA SE. The applications may add more alternatives.
| Expand | For outlines only. Open the node. |
| Object name | Rename the object |
| Open | Open the object with the standard view |
| Open with... | Submenu with the list of available views |
| Navigate… | Show the position of the object in the data hierarchy and prompt opening other objects by browsing the data outline |
| Check | Check the parameters of the object |
| Rename | Rename the object |
| Convert to resource | Define a new object type |
| New resource | Define a new resource of the same type |
| Load from database | Load a resource from the database |
| Write to database | Store a resource to the database |
| Save to palette | Save a system or a macro object as template |
| Where it is used | Show the list of places where the selected resource is used. The applications may provide such lists for other objects, not only for resources |
| Mapping | Submenu with Mapping tools |
| Binding... | Set the boundary conditions |
| Monitor | Add the variable to the list of monitored variables |
| Edit | Edit the line, text or symbol |
| Properties | Change the graphical attributes of the object |
| Replace | Replace the object with some other object |
The Pane menu
Right click on the background of a graphical window (outside any visible object) or right click on a graphical window with the Ctrl key pressed.
The Pane menu includes the copy/paste operations, Insert menu and list of views from the View menu. The Paste operation is treated as Paste Here: the pasted objects will be inserted at the cursor position.
The Multiple selection menu
Select more than one graphical object and right click on one of them.
The Multiple selection menu contains copy/paste operations and the connect operation.
The Log window menu
Right click on the background of the Log window.
The File menu
Right click on the background of the Main window (outside any child window)