Reference Guide

SONAR basics

Introduction

Altering your menus may affect your menus’ hotkeys, which allow you to navigate through the

application’s menus without using a mouse. You can view the hotkeys in your menus by pressing

ALT and observing the underlined letters. Pressing the underlined letter on your keyboard will launch

that menu command. In order to ensure you have no duplicates hotkeys in your customized menu,

do the following.

1. Launch the Menu Editor and select the menu or submenu you wish to check for duplicate

hotkeys. Right-click the menu item and select Check Hotkeys. The Menu Editor will then report

back if duplicate hotkeys are found, or if a command has no hotkey at all.

Rename a menu item or

submenu

Right-click a menu Item or submenu and select Rename, then enter a new

name.

Select a menu Item and press F2, then enter a new name.

Create a new separator bar Right-click a menu item and select Insert Separator.

The separator bar will appear above the menu item you right-clicked.

Remove a submenu or

separator bar

Right-click the submenu or separator and select Remove Submenu or Remove

Separator.

Save a new menu layout Enter a new name into the Menu Layout field and press the Save button.

Delete an existing menu

layout

Select the menu layout you wish to delete and press the Delete button

Edit a menu layout Launch the Menu Editor and choose the menu layout you wish to edit from the

drop-down menu, then make your changes.

Load a different menu layout Launch the Menu Editor and choose a different Menu Layout from the drop-

down menu, then close the dialog.

Use the Options > Menu Layouts command, and select a layout from the

available options.

Note 1: Keep in mind that the factory default menu layout cannot be overwritten. If you want to

change this layout, save your changes under a new layout name.

Note 2: If you change your menu layout so much that you can’t find some commands, you can

always load the factory default menu layout.

Note: The Check Hotkeys command examines only commands on the menu that you right-

clicked, at the menu level that you right-clicked. It does not examine submenus of that menu.

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