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Global Menu Vertex Page 7-1
GLOBALS MENU:
Function FastKey Page
============== ========================================= ====
Sleep G-Z (Or the HELP key) 7-2
Save Defaults G-S 7-2
Undo On/Off G-U 7-3
Overwrite G-O 7-4
Coordinates G-C 7-4
About G-A 7-4
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Globals: Sleep Vertex Page 7-2
Function: Sleep
FastKey: G-S
Description:
Vertex is written in GFA and assembly language. GFA is a great
programming language, it has built in bezier curves, a built in file
requestor, extremely fast floating point operations and built in
sorting routines, but it lacks one thing which is extremely important
to Amiga users - full multitasking support. It will multitask, but
other tasks will slow to a crawl. This option, also attainable by
pressing the 'HELP' key, will close the editor and enable full
multitasking. To get back from sleeping, simply press the close gadget
of the sleep window on the Workbench Screen. This sleep window has a
further benifit, as it frees up about 65k of precious chip memory.
Hopefully, a future version of GFA will better support multi-tasking.
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Misc: Save Defaults
Function: Save Defaults
FastKey: G-Z
Description:
This will save the file 'Vertex.Defaults' to the S: directory. After
saving this file, everytime you start Vertex, it will read this file
and configure the system to your choices.
Saved are:
Undo On/Off
Indicator Size
Overwrite On/Off
Fast Draw On/Off
Trans Fast Draw On/Off
Delete All Requester
Anim View Rotation Steps
Coordinates On/Off
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Misc: Undo Vertex Page 7-3
Function: Undo Toggle
FastKey: G-U
Description:
This will turn Undo on or off. When Undo is on, your allowable number
of vertices, edges and faces will be cut in half, making room for an
undo buffer. You can turn undo on and off at any time.
Turning undo on will only work if you currently have less than 1/2 of
the maximum number of vertices, edges or faces. If you have more than
half the total allowable vertices, edges or faces, then Undo will not
come on. You can determine the status of Undo by examining the "Undo"
gadet on the left side of the screen. If the word UNDO is written in
the middle of the gadget, then UNDO is on. If the gadget is blank,
then UNDO is off.
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Misc: Overwrite Vertex Page 7-4
Function: Overwrite Toggle
FastKey: G-O
Description:
When you go to save a file, the system first checks to see if the
file already exists. If this toggle is on, and a file already exists,
you will be asked if you want to over write the file. If this toggle is
off, Vertex will automatically overwrite the file.
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Globals: Coordinates
Function: Coordinates
FastKey: G-C
Description:
This will turn on, or off, the coordinate display near the top left of the
screen. These coordinates are only available in the orthographic views,
not in perspective. Also, Transform-Edit does not support the coordinates,
but it should be the next release.
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Globals: About
Function: About
FastKey: G-A
Description:
This will bring up a requestor telling you the version number of
Vertex, a serial number (for registered users) and the amout of free
chip and fast memory available in the system. Also, you will see the
maximum number of vertices, edges and faces which Vertex can handle on
your machine (memory dependant)
I've also added a clock/date feature which I find useful for keeping
track of job times.