The marking menu feature of Rogue Wave® Views Studio provides fast access to certain items of the Main window menu bar.

You trigger the marking menu feature by pressing the right mouse button in the buffer window. The marking menu then appears showing the menu items in a circle around the current location of the pointer. To choose a menu item, you move up, down, left, right, or diagonally to the appropriate region of the menu and release the mouse button.

Figure 2.9 shows the marking menu of Rogue Wave Views Studio. The Views, Tools, Inspect, Edit, Layers, and Draw menu items are arranged around the center circle.

To activate one of the menu items (for example, Inspect), press the right mouse button, move the mouse quickly in the direction of the Inspect item, and release the button. When you do this, the inspector panel for the object selected in the buffer window is displayed.

Some of the marking menu items contain submenus. For example, when you move the mouse over Edit (Figure 2.10), a submenu appears with additional items (Figure 2.11). You could then choose Paste, for example, by moving the mouse in that direction. You can go back to the previous menu by moving the mouse back to the center of the previous menu. In Figure 2.11, the previous menu center is the circle just above Redo in the Edit submenu.

You can also trigger the items in a submenu by using the “fast” method. This consists of moving the mouse quickly in the directions needed to trigger the item without having to wait for the menu to appear. For example, the Edit/Paste menu selection can be made by making an L-shaped mark in the buffer window while holding down the right mouse button. Move the mouse down and then to right (Figure 2.12). The term “marking menu” comes from this capability to select submenu items as if you are tracing marks with a pencil.

The Rogue Wave Views Studio default marking menu consists of the Views, Tools, Inspect, Edit, Layers, and Draw menu items are arranged around the center circle. These items contain the following selections: