2-2 Chapter 2: Using the Menus
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File Menu
The
File
menu contains commands that relate to opening, closing, saving, printing, and viewing
Cabri Geometry II constructions.
A description of each item in the File menu as it relates to Cabri Geometry II is given below.
Consult your
Macintosh, Windows,
or
DOS User’s Guide
for more information on the following
menu items:
New
,
Open
,
Close
,
Save
,
Save as
,
Page/Printer
Setup
,
, and
Quit
.
New
Keyboard shortcut:
N
(Macintosh);
CTRL+N
(Windows,
DOS
)
The
New
command opens a new, blank Cabri Geometry II drawing window. For the Macintosh and
Windows versions, the window appears on top of all other windows and is the active window. The
window is not assigned a name until you save it using
Save
or
Save as
. For the DOS version, only
one drawing window at a time is displayed. Therefore, you are prompted to save your current
drawing before the new drawing window takes effect.
Open...
Keyboard shortcut:
O
(Macintosh);
CTRL+O
(Windows,
DOS
)
The
Open
command generates a dialog box for opening an existing construction file, macro, tool
configuration file, preference file, or TI
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92 file. Use the dialog box to specify the folder and file to
open.
A construction file is displayed with the view that was visible when the file was last saved. You can
view a summary of the steps used to create the construction interactively by selecting
Replay
Construction
in the
Edit
menu.
A macro appears in the
Macro
toolbox and may be used immediately in the construction.
A tool configuration file immediately alters the Cabri Geometry II tool configuration as defined in
the file. See
Tool Configuration
in the
Options
menu for more information.
A preference file immediately alters Cabri Geometry II preferences as defined in the file. See
Preferences
in the
Options
menu for more information.
Close
Keyboard shortcut:
W
. You also can click in the close box, located on the top left-hand
side of the active window in the title bar.
The
Close
command (Macintosh, Windows) closes the active drawing window. If changes were
made to the construction file, the
Close
dialog box appears and provides the option to save the
changes. If the file is new, the dialog changes to the
Save
dialog box. Cabri Geometry II is still
active in your computer's memory after all files have been closed and does not free memory for
applications other than Cabri Geometry II.
Save
Keyboard shortcut:
S
(Macintosh);
CTRL+S
(Windows,
DOS
)
The
Save
command saves the construction in the active drawing window to the file name specified
previously. The
Save as
dialog box appears if the file was not saved previously. The construction
remains open and active after saving.
The current view of a construction is saved with the file so that it opens to the same view when
reopened. Any macros used in the construction are automatically saved with the file and are
available for use in future edit sessions with the saved file.
