PC Answers 1995 March/PC Answers CD-ROM 5 (Future Publishing) (March 1995).iso/educ/2steps/pworks/help/slideit.hlp

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Overview

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 Slide-it is a sliding block puzzle.
 A picture is divided into a number
 of smaller rectangular areas which
 are rearranged at random. The bottom
 right hand corner of the picture
 will be removed and replaced by a
 blank space. To complete the puzzle
 all the pieces have to be put back
 into their original positions.
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Overview continued (p2)

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At the start the picture is shown.
To rearrange the picture point to an
area adjacent to the gap and 'click'
a mouse button. This area will then
slide into the gap. Upon completion
the blank is automatically filled in
to give the complete picture.

Before Slide-it can be used a picture
needs to chosen from the main menu.

The grid level can be changed from
the Options menu.
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Options

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There are 5 different grids to choose
from. The grid selected will affect
the number of jumbled pieces which
appear on the Puzzle screen.

To select a grid point and 'click on
the one you want. Two red triangles
will appear on  either side of the
selected options.

Click on Back to the main menu to
return to the Puzzle.
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File Management

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 The File Management menu can be
 accessed from the toolkit menu. The
 File Management area allows you to
 have a great deal of control over
 where a program keeps its files,
 where it looks for its files, and
 allows files used by the program to
 be shared between Primary WORKS
 programs.

 It also allows files to be deleted.
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File Management - continued (p2)

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It is important to become familiar
with the use of Pathnames before
delving into the file management area.

Pathnames provide a way of organising
files. A pathname represents a full
description of where a program is
'looking' for a file. Normally, the
program will look after this aspect of
file management. Primary WORKS has
been designed to allow the user a
great deal of control over where work
is kept and how group work may be
organised.
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File management - continued (p3)
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Slide-it picture files are kept in a
sub-directory of Slide-it. It is the
default directories which the program
will always revert to whenever it is
first loaded. It shares this with
Move-it.

The default sub-directory is:

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\PWORKS\MOVESLID\PICTURES\
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File Management - continued (p4)

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Slide-it offers the facility to move
pictures to and from other areas of
the hard disk or on to a floppy disk.

The key to moving files and to using
files you may have stored elsewhere,
is the Change path option.
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File Management - continued (p5)

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Once the Change path option has been
selected, the program will show you
the present path description in full.

If you continue, the program will list
all the possible places you might want
to change the pathname to.

The current path will be indicated by
two large red arrow heads.

A change of path description will mean
resources in that area can be accessed.
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File Management - continued (p6)

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Once the pathname has been changed,
the program will carry out a little
housekeeping exercise. If it finds
any files in the new pathname that it
does not recognise, it will display a
message indicating as much and asking
if you require the detected files to
be included in the pathname file
directory.
When transferring or deleting files,
the new pathname will be used as the
source directory.

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File Management - continued (p7)

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Transfer
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Select the files you wish to transfer.

The files available for transfer will
be listed.

The ALL icon will select all the files
on that screen. Once the selection has
been made click on the icon at the
bottom right.
As each file is transferred a prompt
will appear on the screen for
confirmation that it is to be
transferred.
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File Management - continued (p8)

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Delete
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Select the files you wish to delete.

The files available for deleting will
be listed.

The ALL icon will select all the files
on that screen. Once the selection has
been made click on the icon at the
bottom right.
As each file is deleted a prompt will
appear on the screen for confirmation
that it is to be deleted.
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Mouse

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Mouse sensitivity

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Selecting this option from the
settings menu allows the speed at
which the mouse moves across the
screen to be controlled.

Moving the mouse pointer over a number
and pressing a mouse button will make
a selection.  To choose a mouse
sensitivity that is comfortable, try
different numbers and move the mouse
across the screen.
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Mouse - continued (p2)

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To return to the settings menu select:-

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Back to the setting menu

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The program will remember what mouse
sensitivity number was chosen, and
next time that Slide-it is used, the
mouse sensitivity will be as it was
left in the previous session.
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Printing

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Printer setup

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Printer

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This option allows you to change the
current printer driver. Select from
the list of available drivers, the
one that matches your printer.

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Orientation

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Select the orientation which you
require for the print out, either
landscape or portrait.

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Printing- continued (p2)

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Intensity

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Select the intensity of the print
out you require. Choose either full
or half.

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Print out size

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Print outs can be full size or half
size. The size selected is indicated
by the small picture to the left of
this option.
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Printing- continued (p3)

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Printer port

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Printing can be routed through one of
a number of ports at the rear of the
computer.

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LPT1 - for parallel printing

COM1 - for serial printing
from communications port 1

COM2 - for serial printing
from communications port 2
(if fitted to the computer)
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Printing- continued (p4)

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To start printing

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Printing can be started AT ANY TIME
from within the program by holding
downthe Ctrl key and then pressing
the letter P. The present screen will
then be sent to the printer.

Printing can be halted by pressing the
ESCAPE key at any time. If printing is
interrupted in this way there may be
some time to wait before printing
stops and control is returned to the
program.
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