Tidalis:Controls
Mouse Basics
The basic mouse controls of Tidalis are very simple. You either right-click or shift-click and drag through lines of blocks to turn their arrows in the desired direction. Then you left-click a block to make it emit a stream, which then will follow the arrows that you turned.
Except in Frenzy mode, you cannot emit streams from blocks unless there are no streams active on the board at that time; clicking frantically around the board won't help you at all.
In action-oriented modes, you can also click and hold on your Fast Forward and Ultra Fast Forward buttons to make blocks fall into your board more quickly. A single click on those controls will make just the immediately next column have some blocks fall.
In modes where there are items, you can simply left-click the item that is in your palette (one of the five slots to the right of your board), and then left-click the tile on either any game board where you would like the item to take effect (it doesn't have to be your own game board). If you have loaded an item into your cursor and then change your mind, just right-click or shift-click and your cursor will go back to normal.
