Missing Tone Curve Sliders

Hi all,
I'm not sure when this happened, but I just noticed that the Tone Curve no longer has sliders to adjust Darks, Lights, Shadows, etc. All I have is the curve itself and the dropdown to adjust the type of curve. Did I accidentally change a setting that hides the sliders? I'm running LR 3.3 on Mac. Thanks in advance!

Paul,
There's a non-obvious button in the lower right cornter of the tone curve panel. It looks like a diagonal line with a dot on it. Press it.
Hal

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