The QuickSymTM pop-up


Bringing up the QuickSym window

The QuickSymTM feature of APLX allows you to enter special APL symbols without using a special keyboard layout. By pressing a single key (in Windows or Linux the 'Menu' key , which is usually to the right of the space bar next to the Ctrl key, or a function key - by default F1 - under MacOS), you can bring up a panel which displays the APL symbols:

You can now enter one or more APL symbols by using the mouse to click on the corresponding image in the QuickSym pop-up window. To assist in selecting the character, hovering the mouse over a symbol brings up a brief description of what it does (if it has one-argument and two-argument forms which have different functions, these will be shown on separate lines).

Using the keyboard with the QuickSym window

The QuickSym window is designed so that it is there when you need it, but gets out of the way when you don't. Once you have displayed the QuickSym window, the keyboard behaves as follows:

The contextual menu

Right-clicking on a character in the QuickSym Window (or click-and-hold on the Macintosh) brings up a pop-up menu:

This offers the following options:


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