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BigJig

Opening and saving the jigsaw

To open a new jigsaw:

1. Choose File - Open.

2. Look through  the list of jigsaws. When clicking on its name, you can see how it looks like in the preview window.

3. Click twice on the name of  the jigsaw that you like.

If you want to interrupt your playing, save the game. To do this:

1. Choose File - Save.

2. Type a file name with the .SLV extension.

3. Click OK.

With the File - Save as command, you can save your game to another file. Remember that JIG and SLV files must be in the same directory.

Playing

To move a piece, click on it and drag in another place. If you move bring together two adjacent pieces,  they are stuck. You can use the pocket (the second window) to store pieces that you don't need right now or to make up the jigsaw. You open the pocket by choosing Window - Pocket. To move a piece or a part of jigsaw already stuck to pocket or back to the main window, right click on it.

You can place the pocket and the main window side-by-side or overlapping each other. Choose Window - Horizontal or  Vertical to place them side-by-side, Window - Cascade to overlap them so that bar and left edge of the main window are visible. To overlap them completely,  choose Window - Stack, this is the most convenient  way to play.  To switch between windows,  press spacebar .

To get pieces that you've moved by accident outside the window, choose Edit - Find lost pieces.

If you want to see a whole picture, choose Window - Thumbnail.

Changing the background

It may happen that pieces and the background are very close in color. To change the color of background, choose Edit - Background and pick up another color in the palette.

Register

Please visit the page http://www.aha.ru/~panksnet/bigjig.htm to get the latest information about registration.

After registration you will get access to another 12 beautiful pictures for BigJig.

You can choose them by the following address: http://www.aha.ru/~panksnet/jigsaws.htm.

To download a picture, click on a thumbnail. After the security box appears, enter your registration login and password.

Unpack the downloaded file with WinZip and place it into the directory where bigjig.exe resides.

Quit

Choose File - Exit, or press Ctrl-X.