Geometry Explorer Help
Getting Started with Geometry Explorer:
Design:
Program Overview Broad
overview
of what the program does and its major features.
Tool Panel This is
the
set of buttons on the left side of the main Geometry Explorer
window.
These are the main tools with which we create geometric objects.
Geometry Canvas:
The canvas acts as the name implies; it is a surface on which you
"paint"
geometric objects and construct geometric figures while you explore the
concepts of geometry. You can test hypotheses, observe the effect
of dragging a particular point that is involved in a complex figure,
apply
transformations to an object, etc. Your geometric constructions
come
to life on the canvas.
Objects on the canvas can be edited by using the Edit
and View menus. See the help pages
for these
topics for more information.
Below the canvas is a small text area that serves as a message
area
for Explorer to signal errors and other information to the user.
Menu Bar:
There are many menus in the menu bar: for example, File, Edit,
View, Measure, Graph, Turtle,
Windows, and Help. Each of
these
menus will control specific actions which
are spelled out in more detail in the corresponding Help pages on each
menu category.