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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="howto_flat_review">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#reviewing"/>
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<link type="next" xref="howto_cthulhu_find" />
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<title type="sort">2. Flat Review</title>
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<desc>Examining a window spatially</desc>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Joanmarie Diggs</name>
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<email>joanied@gnome.org</email>
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</credit>
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<license>
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<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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</license>
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</info>
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<title>Flat Review</title>
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<p>
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<app>Cthulhu</app>'s Flat Review feature allows you to spatially review the
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contents, both text and widgets, of the active window. In this mode,
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<app>Cthulhu</app> treats the window as if it were a two-dimensional sheet of
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text, eliminating any notion of widget hierarchy or other logical grouping
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within the window.
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</p>
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<p>
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The "flattened" contents, also known as the Flat Review context, can be
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<link xref="commands_flat_review">navigated</link> by line, by word, by
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character, and by object. In addition, you can perform a left-click or
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right-click on the object being reviewed. Finally, you can use
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<link xref="howto_cthulhu_find">Cthulhu Find</link>, a Flat-Review-based feature
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to search the active window's contents.
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</p>
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<p>
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Because the Flat Review context is a spatial representation of the active
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window's contents, it is created when you first enter Flat Review and only
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contains those objects which are visible. As a result, you will not be able
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to use Flat Review to access items which are in the window but currently
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off-screen. In addition, if the window's contents change of their own
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accord, the Flat Review context will not automatically be updated. You can
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cause a new context to be built by toggling Flat Review off and back on.
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</p>
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<p>
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Finally, Flat Review by its nature is a mode that cannot be used at the same
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time that <app>Cthulhu</app> is tracking focus. Thus if you are in Flat Review
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and then use the application's navigation commands to move the caret or to
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give focus to another object, you will automatically leave Flat Review.
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</p>
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</page>
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