Visual enhancements including zooming

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Ctrl+D Minimize or restore the details panel (toggle).
Ctrl+E Show or hide the Enlarger panel.
Ctrl+H Hit and History lists toggle between 3D and 2D format.
Ctrl+L Flash lights in tunnels to draw attention to them.
F5 Refresh the screen (updates sorts if items have changed, removes semitransparent topics whose associations have been broken).
F6 Hide all topics except any flagged ones while pressed.
F7 Hold down to show all association lines in the 'Scape.
Shift+F7 Toggles showing all association lines on and off . Also shows the 3D association type panels for Association types that you have edited.
F8 Toggle visibility of selected topic's parent association lines.
Shift+click Hold shift and click on a topic rectangle, cone or pyramid to zoom in.

Release the Shift key first to stay there, release the mouse button first to go back where you were.

CapsLock+click Press CapsLock and click on a topic rectangle, cone or pyramid to zoom in. Keep the mouse button down and you can fly around in the zoomed-to location. Release the mouse button first to go back where you were. Keep the mouse button down and press the CapsLock key again to stay there, release the mouse button first to go back where you were. If you forget to release Caps Lock, it will affect your typing in Topicscape and any other application you're running at the time.



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