Keyboard shortcuts

[stephane.magnenat (Stéphane Magnenat)]

While Candli is designed to work well on mobile devices, even phones, we do not forget desktop users. Therefore, Candli provides a bunch of mouse and keyboard shortcuts:

While playing game

Keyboard (main area)

• Arrow keys: select the corresponding direction
• a/b/x/y keys: select the corresponding button
• Space: button a
• Ctrl: button b

Keyboard (numpad)

• 8/2/4/6 keys: select the corresponding direction
• ./Enter/0/3 keys: select the corresponding button (a/b/x/y)

Level editor

There are mainly two cases, whether an object is selected or not:

No object selected

• Esc: exit the level editor
• Arrow keys: scroll the view
• +/- keys: scale the view
• Home or a: zoom fit the scene in the view
• s: reset the scale factor of the view
• n: select the first object

Object selected

• Enter: open the VPL editor
• Esc: unselect the object
• Delete: remove the object
• Arrow keys: move the object
• +/- keys: scale the object
• PageUp/PageDown: change the z-order of the object
• c: clone the object on spot
• r: reset the rotation angle to 0.0
• s: reset the scale factor to 1.0
• Home or a: zoom fit the selected object
• n: select next object

Object selected, when dragging the mouse

• Shift + mouse left axis: rotate the object
• Ctrl + mouse left axis: scale the object
• mouse wheel: scale the object by steps of ~20%
• mouse wheel + Shift: rotate the object by steps of 15 degrees

In any state

• g: opens the interaction map screen

Block editors

• Esc: return to the previous screen

Input block

• Arrow keys: select the corresponding direction
• a/b/x/y keys: select the corresponding button

Speed block

• Arrow keys: select the corresponding direction
• Keys from 1 to 5: set motion magnitude