Interactive help for all commands and their arguments is displayed in a pop-up window
when typing or by pressing Tab or the
spacebar:
Figure 1. HWC Console Interactive Help
Entity Selection
Use the arrow keys and the left-mouse button (LMB) to select entities in the pop-up
window. Selected commands/options can be confirmed by pressing the Tab key; Enter executes the command. Add
a "," during selection to create labeled lists.
Use simple strings to display an entity pre-selection in the pop-up window.
Note: To select multiple entities by strings, wildcards have to be used: Figure 3. Entity Selection in Commands Using Wildcards
Figure 2. Entity Pre-selection for Interactive Help
The first version of the interactive selection mode using the
Select option in commands such as hide command select can be terminated by pressing
the Esc key. The status bar, in the
lower left corner, displays the current state of the interactive selection: Figure 4. Interactive Selection in HWC Commands
Selection Widgets
Widget support in the interactive help allows you to select entity properties and
prevents typos when writing commands. Supported widgets include color selectors,
file browsers, font selectors, entity selectors, and so on. See the examples
below: Figure 5. Color Widget Support Figure 6. Open File Browser from Command Line Figure 7. Node Selection Widget in Tracking System Commands
Name/Value Pairs
Some commands support a flexible number of arguments using
<name>=<value> pairs. Use the Tab key to display the interactive help and enter
additional <name>=<value> pairs. The Esc key stops displaying the interactive help even when not all
<name>=<value> pairs are used. Figure 8. Name/Value Pair Support in save image
Note: The reader options in the open animation result
command only work with HyperView - MultiCore
off.
