Geometry Explorer Help

Using the File Menu:

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The File Menu controls all file handling operations such as opening pre-recorded Explorer sessions and recordings, saving sessions and recordings, opening new windows, printing the current canvas, and closing windows.  Specifically the menu items are:

New: Open a new canvas. A dialog box will pop up asking whether the canvas should be a Euclidean canvas, a Hyperbolic canvas, or an Elliptic canvas.  For more information on Hyperbolic Geometry look here.  For information on Elliptic Geometry look here.

New Recording: Open a new recording window. In this window you can start a recording which will store sequences of constructions which can be played back later. For more information on recordings look here.

Open: Open a previously saved Explorer session or recording. Only files previously saved in Geometry Explorer can be opened.  Geometry Explorer files are saved with tags identifying their type.  Thus, when one opens a saved session (identified with the ".gex" file extension), a new Canvas will open up with the saved session.  If one opens a recording (identified by the ".gre" file extension) a new Recorder window will open up with the saved recording.

Save: Save the current session to the disk.

Save As: Prompt the user for a filename and save the session to the disk.

Save As Image:  Save the curent screen display as an image file.

Save as HTML: Save the current session as an applet on a web page.

Print: Print the contents of the canvas.

Close: Close the current window. If this is the last open window, this will also quit the program.

Quit: Exit the program.