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⌨️ Shortcuts and Limits

Keyboard shortcuts, system input limits, and the icon picker.

Keyboard Shortcut System

The shared keyboard shortcuts only work inside the Blender Property Editor. Use the Shortcuts Affect menu in the main panel to choose which editing surface receives the shortcut commands.

Available targets: Disabled, Entry List, Generated Layout, Per Value Labels, Per Other Entry Value Text, Conditional by Other Entry Labels. The value-label-related targets only appear when the active entry has that rule context.

Registered shortcuts

Shortcut Action Notes
Shift+A Add Active shortcut target
X / Delete Remove Active shortcut target
Shift+D Duplicate Active shortcut target
H Hide / show selected Entry List only
Shift+H Show only selected Entry List only
Alt+H Unhide all Entry List only
W Move up Active shortcut target
S Move down Active shortcut target
Shift+W Make child of previous (Entry List) / Group into previous row (Layout) Context-dependent
Shift+S Outdent entry (Entry List) / Group into next row (Layout) Context-dependent
Alt+P Clear parent (Entry List) / Ungroup row (Layout row header) Context-dependent

Input and Output Limits

Limit Value
Entry tree maximum depth 8
Generated UI indent amount 0.1 – 10.0
Text / heading spacing 0.0 – 5.0
Float precision metadata 0 – 6
Numeric step metadata maximum 100
Label input limit 255 characters
Tooltip input limit 512 characters
Section title input limit 255 characters
Property ID input limit 63 characters

Display text behavior

Generated UI display text is normalized to a single line for most label uses. Input labels are limited, but the source no longer intentionally truncates generated labels to a tiny fixed length. Blender can still visually clip text if the panel is narrow.

🎭 Icon System

The icon picker uses Blender's label-icon enum list. Icons can be set on text entries, managed and native section headings, and text-style value-label rows.

Fields: before icon, after icon.

Icon names are normalized against Blender's valid icon IDs. NONE means no icon.