Keyboard Shortcuts — MuirWave User Guide

§01

Where to find them on the device

Every shortcut below is attached to a real menu item, so you never have to remember one — the menu is the reference sheet, and it shows you the key next to the command.

Device	How to open the menu bar
iPad	Swipe down from the very top edge of the screen — the menu bar (MuirWave · File · Edit · View · Data · Window · Help) drops in over the app. With a pointer attached, moving to the top edge does the same. Nothing needs to be enabled first.
Mac	The menu bar is always there along the top of the display.
iPhone	No menu bar — iPhone has no system menu bar for any app, so there's nothing to swipe down. The commands themselves are still there: attach a hardware keyboard and the shortcuts below work, and holding ⌘ brings up iOS's own list of them. MuirWave is designed touch-first on iPhone, so you shouldn't ever need one.

New in v1.0. Before this release the whole menu set was Mac-only — on iPad, File held nothing but "Close Window" and View reported "No Menu Items". Every command below now exists on both.

§02

The full set

Grouped by the menu they live in. ⌘ is Command, ⌥ is Option (Alt), ⇧ is Shift.

File

Keys	Command	iPad	Mac	What it does
⌥⌘E	Export Report…	✓	✓	Opens MuirWave's Export sheet, scrolled to its REPORTS section — the same flow as the Export tile in the rail. Requires MuirWave Pro for every report except Brief Sheet.
⇧⌘E	Export Data & Figures…	✓	✓	Opens the same Export sheet, scrolled to its DATA & FIGURES section (Markdown / CSV / GeoJSON / Figure PNG) instead. If you haven't described your source in the Impact Ranges panel yet it says so rather than exporting ranges you never chose.
—	Export Diagnostics…	—	✓	Mac only. Builds a diagnostics bundle and reveals it in the Finder — useful if we ask you for one while chasing a problem. There's no iPad equivalent, because on iPad the file would be written and immediately orphaned with nowhere to reveal it.

View

Keys	Command	iPad	Mac	What it does
⌘+	Zoom In	✓	✓	Halves the map's span — exactly what the + on the map's zoom stepper does. ⌘= works too, so you don't have to reach for Shift.
⌘−	Zoom Out	✓	✓	Doubles the span. The camera keeps its centre and heading, so the pin stays where it is.
⌘K	Show / Hide Keypad	✓	—	iPad only, and deliberately so: the on-screen keypad is a touch affordance that MuirWave never shows on the Mac. With a hardware keyboard attached to an iPad this is how you put it away.
⇧⌘W	Close All Panels	✓	✓	Empties the working page's panel area in one press. On iPad and Mac this closes the dock and every floating panel at once. Shift because plain ⌘W is already spoken for — see §03.

Data

Keys	Command	iPad	Mac	What it does
⌘R	Refresh Live SSP	✓	✓	Forces a fresh live sound-speed lookup at your pin. Safe to press any time — offline, on cooldown, or with live data switched off, it simply does nothing. Needs MuirWave Live.
⇧⌘R	Refresh Live Wind / Wave	✓	✓	The same, for the surface-conditions feed. Shift is the "other one of the pair" throughout MuirWave.
—	Refresh Data Pack List	✓	✓	Re-scans for installed regional packs. Useful right after a download; no shortcut because it isn't something you do mid-flow.

Help

Keys	Command	iPad	Mac	What it does
—	MuirWave User Guide	✓	✓	Opens this guide in your browser.
—	Report an Issue…	✓	✓	Starts an email to support with the subject pre-filled.

§03

Keys the system provides

These aren't MuirWave's — the operating system supplies them to every app, which is exactly why MuirWave doesn't redefine them. They're listed so the picture is complete.

Keys	Does	iPad	Mac
⌘W	Close the window	✓	✓
⌘M	Minimise the window	✓	✓
⌘Q	Quit MuirWave	—	✓
⌘,	Open Settings (Preferences)	—	✓
⌘N	New project window	—	✓
⌘O	Open a saved project	—	✓
⌘S	Save	—	✓
⌘X ⌘C ⌘V	Cut / copy / paste in a text field	✓	✓

Why iPad has no ⌘S or ⌘N. On the Mac, MuirWave is a document-based app — each project is a file you open, save and duplicate, and macOS provides that whole File menu for free. On iPad your work lives in the in-app project library instead (Load Project on the landing page, synced through iCloud), which has no file to save, so those commands would have nothing to act on.

§04

Dialogs and panels

When a dialog is up — the report-type picker, the methodology picker, the project-name prompt — the keyboard drives it.

Keys	Does	Where
Return	Fires the highlighted button — Export…, Save, whichever the dialog leads with.	Mac.
⌘.	Cancels the dialog, same as tapping Cancel.	iPad.
esc	Cancels the dialog, same as tapping Cancel.	Mac.
esc	Closes the frontmost panel — floating cards first, then the dock.	Mac and iPad with a hardware keyboard.

Confirming on iPad. Tap the dialog's brass button. The Return key is a Mac affordance here — on iPad, the keys the dialog answers to are ⌘. to cancel, and a tap to go ahead.

A panel can always be closed without a keyboard — use the ✕ in its header or tap its rail tile again. The legacy floating overlay also closes from a tap on its dimmed backdrop. Nothing in MuirWave is closable only by keyboard.

§05

The slide dock & tear-off

On iPad and Mac, MuirWave docks a panel beside a wide chart or below a portrait-shaped chart, and lets you tear it free into its own floating card when you want more than one panel up at once. The chart stays usable throughout.

What	How it works
Opening and switching panels	With no panel open, tap a rail tile once to expand its summary, then again to open it. Once a panel is open, one tap on a different panel tile swaps the dock straight to that panel; tap the currently docked tile to close it. In a landscape-shaped window the chart slides left and the panel docks beside it, full height. In a portrait-shaped window the panel docks below the chart instead, so the map keeps its full width. The rule follows the window's shape — including Split View, Stage Manager and Mac windows — rather than the device's orientation. Rotate or resize with a panel open and the same panel hands off between the side and bottom without closing. There's no dimmed backdrop and no tap-to-dismiss here; the map stays fully interactive.
Resizing the dock	Drag the grip on the panel's left edge when it is beside the chart, or the thin pill right on its top edge when it is below the chart. A brass ghost line tracks your finger while you drag; the panel re-lays once at the width or height you release it. Side width and bottom height are remembered independently.
Tearing a panel free	A short centred bar in a docked panel's header is the drag cue — pinned to the header's top edge when the panel sits beside a wide chart, or centred in the header (clear of the resize pill, which owns that top edge instead) when the panel is below a portrait-shaped chart. Drag anywhere across the header — not just a tap, a real drag past a small threshold — and the panel tears loose into its own floating glass card that follows your finger, freeing the dock for another panel. You can have the docked panel plus up to three floating cards up at once (four panel surfaces total); tear off a fifth and the oldest floating card gives way to make room — nothing you're actively looking at ever gets closed out from under you.
Moving & resizing a float	Drag a floating card by its header to move it; tap anywhere on it to bring it to the front. A grip in its bottom-right corner resizes it the same way the dock grip does — a ghost outline tracks your drag, and the card re-lays once you let go.
Docking a float again	Either drag it to the glowing cyan DOCK HERE strip along the chart's trailing edge in a wide window, along the bottom edge in a portrait-shaped window, press the ⇥ button in its header, or tap that floating panel's rail tile once. The rail-tile route is also a handy recovery control if a card has been left near the edge of the chart. If another panel is already docked, that panel doesn't close: it swaps out to become a floating card itself, so you never lose your place.
Telling docked from floating at a glance	Rail tiles use three states: cyan for the panel currently docked, brass for any panel currently floating, and the normal quiet treatment when idle. A floating panel's tile brings it back to the dock; only the tear gesture and an occupied-dock swap create a new float.
Closing things	Each panel's own ✕ closes it. esc on a hardware keyboard (Mac or iPad alike) closes panels front-to-back — the frontmost floating card first, then the next, and only once every float is closed does it reach the dock. View → Close All Panels (⇧⌘W) empties the whole workspace — dock and every float — in one press, and works even if you never tear a panel off.
Your layout comes back	Whatever you have floating — which panels, where you put them, what size you left them, which one is in front — is remembered and restored the next time you open the app, including after quitting and relaunching. Closing every float is remembered too: a clean workspace stays clean until you tear something off again. The docked panel itself is never restored this way (it always starts closed, same as today).
Narrow windows	Portrait by itself is no longer a reason to lose the dock: the panel uses the bottom edge and preserves the map's width. A truly small Split View or Mac window, or the Large interface-scale setting on a smaller iPad, can still leave too little usable map for either dock axis. Only then does the panel fall back to the familiar floating overlay and tear-off becomes unavailable. Widen the window (or choose a smaller interface scale) and the dock and tear-off return.

Available in MuirWave 1.0 on iPad and Mac. iPhone keeps its compact phone-specific panel presentation.