Jumpin'!
There will often be times you want to jump directly to an item. If you know the address of the item, you can use the Jump Command.
The Jump Commands is available from the Main Menu. The keyboard shortcut is Cmd-J (Mac) Ctrl-J [Win]. Just enter the address of the object in the database you want to jump to.
The Jump dialog on the Macintosh has a pop-up menu
of recently visited places. (Not available on Windows).
Note: There's an easter egg here. If you type in a URL (anything beginning with http: or www. ) Frontier will open up that URL in your Web Browser. Cool!
Double-Clicking
More often, you'll see an address in a script or readme, and want to go directly there to see what it looks like. You can do this by Holding down the (Cmd) [Ctrl] key and double clicking on the address. Frontier will open up that location so you can see it.
Browsing
In Frontier 5, tables are outlines as well; so it's very easy to navigate.
Clicking on the dark triangles reveals and hides subsections of the table.
Using the arrow keys to scroll through the table. Left and right visit every element of the table, while the up/down keys move within a heading.
There's more instruction on using outlines available at scripting.com.
Opening a new window.
Sometimes it's convenient to open a subtable into a new window. You can do that by double-clicking on the 'Value' column of the subtable you want to open. This works as well for wptext objects, menubar objects, scripts, and outlines--basically, any object that is allowed to have it's own window.
(Cmd-Enter ) [Ctrl-Enter] is the keyboard shortcut to do the same thing.
Climbing out of this table
On the Mac, hold down the (Cmd) key and while clicking down
on the window title to 'climb up' to the parent table. On Windows, click on the window title with the right mouse button, and the popup menu appears.
If you want to go to the table that's above the current one, hold down the (Cmd) [Ctrl] while you click on the title bar of the current window. A pop menu shows you what tables that you can navigate to.
Now that you know how to get around, find out where you should put your stuff.
Page 1: Frontier's Database Defined
Page 2: The Advantages of Frontier's Database
Page 3: What's in the root?
Page 4: Navigating the Root
Page 5: Where do I keep my stuff?
Page 6: Database Names and Addresses
Page 7: Database Care and Feeding
Page 8: Object Database Tech Notes
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