11.1.3. Trees, tables, and context menus

Data in the GUI is organized in trees and tables. The context menu can be obtained with a right-click. The context menu of a tree has the following entries:

• Cut - for copying the selection to the clipboard
• Copy - for copying the selection to the clipboard and then deleting it
• Paste - for pasting the content of the clipboard at the selected position
• Select all siblings - for selecting all items in the tree that are siblings of the currently selected item
• Invert selection - for selecting all unselected siblings of the currently selected items
• Delete - for deleting the selected items
• Expand - for expandig the selected items
• Collapse - for collapsing the selected items
• Rename - for renaming an item
• Move up - for moving the selected items up
• Move down - for moving the selected items down
• Add item before - for adding an item before the selected item. If it is not clear whether a sibling or a child should be created the GUI opens a dialog and asks you what you want.
• Add item after - for adding an item after the selected item. If it is not clear whether a sibling or a child should be created the GUI opens a dialog and asks you what you want.

Depending on the selection and the nature of the tree some options can be disabled.

The context menu of a tree.

Tables also have a context menu with following items:

• Cut - for copying the selection to the clipboard
• Copy - for copying the selection to the clipboard and then deleting it
• Paste - for pasting the content of the clipboard at the selected position
• Select all - for selecting all rows in a table
• Invert selection - for inverting the selection
• Clear cells - for clearing the content of selected cells
• Remove rows - for removing the rows holding seelcted cells
• Move rows up - for moving rows with selected cells up
• Move rows down - for moving rows with selected cells down
• Add row before - for adding a row before every row with selected cells
• Add row after - for adding a row after every row with selected cells

Depending on the selection and the nature of the table some options can be disabled.

The context menu of a table.

Single item selection in trees and tables can be made by clicking on an item. Multiple items can be selected by holding down Ctrl and clicking items. A range can be selected by clicking on the first item in a range, holding Shift, and then clicking the last item in a range.