Keyboard Navigation in VEXcode IQ on Windows (Experimental)

To enable keyboard navigation, press the Shift + Ctrl + k keys at the same time. When keyboard navigation is enabled, the Block that's highest on the workspace will be highlighted.

To disable keyboard navigation, press Shift + Ctrl + k again.

1. Press T on the keyboard, then press S to open the Toolbox. Use S to scroll down and W to scroll up through the Block categories in the Toolbox.

2. Navigate to the section containing the Block you want to add to the workspace.

3. Press D to move from the Toolbox scroll bar to the Blocks. Then press S until you reach the desired Block.

4. Press Enter to add the Block to the workspace.

1. Press A to select the stack.

2. Press A again to go to the cursor select.

3. Hold Shift and use WASD (W and S move up and down, A and D move left and right) to move the cursor to where you want the new Block to be added.

4. Press Enter to save the cursor's current location.

5. Use the steps from above to scroll through the Toolbox and add a Block to the workspace.

1. Press D to go into the stack.

2. Press W and S to move up and down through the Blocks until you reach the desired attach point. Press Enter to save the attach point.

A blue line will appear in the stack to show where the attach point was saved.

3. Press A to return to Block selection.

4. Use W and S to navigate to the Block you want to attach.

5. Press i to attach the block.

You can select an attach point and attach a Block directly from the Toolbox. Follow the steps above to mark an insertion point. Once marked, pressing Enter on any block in the Toolbox will attach it at that point.

If the selected Block is incompatible with the marked attach point, the attach point will be discarded. Instead, the Block will be added to the workspace at its default location.

1. Select the Block in the stack that you want to detach.

2. Press X to detach the Block and any attached Blocks beneath it.

1. Press D to enter the block and access its first parameter.

2. Use W and S to navigate through the block's parameters.

3. Press T on the keyboard, then press S to open the Toolbox. Use S to scroll down and W to scroll up through the Toolbox.

1. To edit text inside of a Block, navigate to the circular highlight to the left of the text field.

2. Press D to go inside the text field parameter.

3. Press S to select the text field.

4. Press D to select the text.

5. Press Enter to start typing in the field. Once you are finished, press Esc to deselect the text field.

6. Press A twice to go back to the parameter select.

1. Once the stack that the Comment Block is inside is selected, press D to select the Comment Block. 

2. Press D again to select the Comment Block's text field.

3. Press Enter to start typing and press Esc once you are finished to save what was written.

Note: Pressing Enter to type inside a Comment Block will delete all text that was previously in the text field.

For any Block that has the "and don't wait" option (the arrow) at the end of it, go into the Block's parameters and navigate the parameters until the highlight disappears. Pressing Enter will enable the "and don't wait" option. Pressing Enter again will disable it.

1. Press D to go inside the Block's parameters and use S or W to navigate through the Block's parameters until a highlighted circle beside the parameter you want to fill with the Block appears.

2. Press Enter to save that parameter as the attach point.

3. Using the steps above, navigate through the Toolbar to select the Block you want to insert into the parameter. Press Enter on the Block to insert it.

Once you are finished coding your project, you can use keyboard shortcuts to activate the project:

• Ctrl + Enter will start the project.
• Ctrl + e will stop a running project.
• Ctrl + h will open the help documentation for Blocks.