|15Help on using the menu system

|07Fractals Plus uses a set of buttons down the side of the screen to act as
a menu. These buttons can be activated by pressing the |15left mouse button|07
when the mouse cursor is over them. If you are using the keyboard pressing
|15[Tab]|07 will bring up a highlight on the first button. This can then be
moved around using the cursor keys. Pressing |15[Enter]|07 will then
activate that button.

The buttons are arranged as follows:

|10          Return to previous image    File functions
|10          Zoom out                    Advanced functions
|10          Display Mandelbrot set      Help index
|10          Print                       Exit

|07These are explained in detail in the rest of this help page.

|10Return to previous image:|07 Fractals Plus will remember the previous image
displayed on screen. Provided you have not been to a text mode screen you can
return to this image by selecting this button. If it is not possible Fractals
Plus will beep.

|10Zoom out:|07 Selecting this will draw a new image, with a range twice that of
the current image. The current image will be contained in the centre quarter
of the new screen. It is not possible to zoom out further than a range of 4.
(See the help on Zooming in and out for more details).

|10Display Mandelbrot set:|07 This will return you to the original image of the
Mandelbrot set which was displayed on startup.

|10Print:|07 This option will allow you to print the current image to a range
of printers. You will be asked to select a print driver and a port to print
to. You should select the print driver which most closely matches your
printer, or an emulation your printer supports. The selection of port allows
you to send the data to the correct port for the printer, useful if you are
running on a network, or to a file. For most machines however the default
option, LPT1, will be the one that the printer is connected to.

|10File functions:|07 In this unregistered version this will take you to a 
screen which will allow you to select a file to load. Use the |15[Tab]|07 key
to move between the different fields, and the cursor keys to move within the
field. Press |15[Enter]|07 to load the file (or cancel if the cancel button is
selected). In the registered version you would also have an option to save 
the current image to a disk file.

|10Advanced functions:|07 This will take you to another submenu, which contains
the following options:
     þ  View information on current image
     þ  Type in coordinates for a new image
     þ  Cycle the colour palette (press any key to stop it)
     þ  Use the square filling algorithm for future images
     þ  Use the line filling algorithm for future images
     þ  Return to main menu

|10Help index: |07This will take you to the help index. From here you can select
any of the help topics.

|10Exit:|07 This will return you to whatever operating system you were using
before you started Fractals Plus.

|10Iterations:|07 These are not actually controlled by the menu but are dealt
with here. The more iterations you use the more "accurate" the resulting
image will be, but the longer your computer will have to think about it. To
alter the number of iterations press the |15left mouse button|07 on the two
spinner buttons next to the iterations counter, at the bottom of the menu.
If you are using the keyboard then you can use the |15[Page up]|07 and
|15[Page Down]|07 keys.

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