Splash! uses objects for text known as text boxes. These boxes help to keep the
text in a neat and orderly fashion. There are a number of options available to help
style and present the text which are outlined below.
This option can be used to change the highlighted text to bold face. If no text is already highlighted, then anything that you type from this point on, will be in bold face. This option can be toggled, meaning that the same key will switch bold face on or off. This option is activated by the key combination ctrl-B.
Cutting text, is handled with the ctrl-X key combination and places the selected text into the clipboard, simultaneously removing this from the text box. The removed text can now be placed at another location using the Paste feature. Copying text, can be done similarly to the cut function. By highlighting the text, you can then use the ctrl-C key combination to copy this into the clipboard. This can now be pasted to another location, again using the Paste feature. Editing text is like any other text editor. The keys are windows compliant so that any key you would normally use will work in Splash!. To begin editing, right mouse click over the text box and select edit. This will put Splash! into the editing mode. From here you can edit to your hearts content. Hypertext is used to do many things. Using text, we can create a link in just the same way as we do with an image or some other object. Another form of changing the style of the text, this option changes any highlighted text to italics. This, similar to bold_face text, can be toggled.This option is activated by the key combination ctrl-I. There are 3 ways text can appear, as with any word processor. Splash! is no different and allows the text to be justified one of three ways. These being justified to the left, center or even the right. Pasting text, will copy whatever information is in the clipboard to the active area. This option is activated by the key combination ctrl-V and is usually used in conjuntion with the cut and copy functions. Another form of text formatting. This will underline any highlighted text, with the key combination of ctrl-U. Again this is a toggle option. If for any reason that you have found that you dislike the way you formated some text, then you are able to use this option to normalise to it's original state. This option will work even if you have differing types, sizes, fonts, colours etc. All the text will be normalised. This option, changes the color of any highlighted text. Using various colors can be used to quite tastefully enhance the look of your page. Just be sure not to use too much color, you don't want it to give you a headache just to look at! But also keep in mind, too little color will appear boring. This will change the font of any highlighted text. There are many varying fonts for you to choose from, and each can give a completely different feel to your page. It's best not to use too many different fonts in one page though, or it will tend to look cluttered. If you have a text file that you wish to have in Splash!, you can import the text into any text box instead of having to retype it into Splash!. All you need to do, is choose the text file!Splash! also provides you with a preview feature. When you select your text file, you will be shown what is contained within your text file, before it is applied to your page. This option will change the size of any highlighted text, there are 6 different sizes that can be used to display your text. HTML allows styles to be applied to a page to help format text, there is no real standard between browsers but Splash! provides those that are supported by the most popular browsers.
- Cite - Used for the title of a cited work.
- Code - Used to display examples of code within a paragraph.
- Definition - Used when defining a term for the first time.
- Emphasis - Used to emphasize your text.
- Keyboard - Indicates that the text should be input by the user.
- Sample - Indicates that this text is used literally.
- Strong - Used to strongly emphasize your text.
- Variable - Indicates that the text is used as a variable in a computer program.