(These are the texts of the "Help" information from Mage 5.4) KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS a: animate, b: 2animate z,Z,x,X: true recentering recalculation along screen Z axis z;+1, Z:+10, x:-1, X:-10 motion (Note: ztran is just quick offset) n,N: ninety degree rotation plus,minus s: toggle keep-stereo, c: toggle cross<->wall eyed t: toggle keep-thinline p: toggle keep-perspective f: toggle flat scrolling vs 3D rotation l: toggle list/point color dominant e: toggle Lens effect m: clears measure's lines from screen & turns off button k: toggle kaleidoscope effect u: new remote update, U: show previous command shiftkey down: keep detail, move dragline, reverse animate spacebar pressed: new dragline OUTPUT HELP Regular 'Save As' writes entire file, including modified kin after pruning, new draws, views, etc. Save Special writes a file with just: New parts added with Draw_New functions Rotatable parts, for all bond-rotations. Current View with viewID,zoom,zslab,center,matrix Current XYZ point picked (e.g. for PREKIN focus) Questions and Answers from TEXT window Write PostScript does the image as currently displayed EDIT HELP Editing the kinemage: Draw New: lines, labels, constructions screen buttons choose functions * Draw New Setup: dialog for shortened lines, etc. Keep Current View: adds to VIEWS menu Change Color *: of list containing picked point or just of point Prune: sets up 3 new buttons (including an undo) punch *: deletes just picked point, prune *: deletes connected points Superpick: picking on ALL points Show Object Properties *: data hierarchy of picked point, for editing Text Editable: lets you edit text & caption windows * toggle the buttons on panel DISPLAY HELP Multi-Width line: for more depth cueing, or One Width: lines two pixels wide, or Thin Line: lines one pixel wide. 't' Perspective: Front larger, rear smaller (vs orthographic) 'p' Stereo on: side-by-side images 's' (cross-eye vs. wall-eye 'c' toggle) Compare on: side-by-side pair of animated groups Stereo: angle, separation, mode List color made dominant over point color 'l' Only center region shows things in Lens-lists 'e' Level-of-detail as a function of update rate (dialog) White Bkg: Colors on white background B&W Monitor: Black on white (use with grayscale also) Special Display Help: Font size: control info line, label size for lectures Flatland: mouse motion->xy translations Kaleidoscope: no screen refresh, so smearing! TOOLS HELP Find: point by name #F Find Again #G Measures: get simple & dihedral angles, on info line Key Empowerments: submenu of useful quickies clear measure lines from screen 'm' Restore initial angles of bond-rotations rotate 90 deg plus: 'n', minus: 'N' Remote update from prekin, probe, etc. 'u' 'U' XYZ coord of last picked point exhibited Gnomon on center of rotation Rate: updates/sec exhibited Count: #lines on, total# points, time Kludges: more tools submenu Test Kin Format: list violations of strict kinemage format during input Debug test: for programer Write Visible Parts: output just what is showing on the screen Cursor Choice: change to plane or ship (Mac version only) MOUSE OPERATIONS MAGE cursor is a pointing arrow head. Clicking the mouse button while the arrow cursor tip touches a point, writes that point's {point ID} to the screen. (If more than one mouse button, use the left one) Moving the mouse while holding the button down (dragging) rotates image Starting cursor in lower 5/6 screen rotates around x,y axes, Starting in upper 1/6 of the screen, rotates around z axis, Rotation of the image continues to be coupled to the hand motion exactly as it started no matter where the cursor moves on the screen. Thus the reader (lecturer) can place the cursor where convenient and ignore it thereafter. WINDOW RESIZING The windows can be resized and repositioned, but not shut or put behind. If a window gets hidden behind others, it can be brought to the front by the Show commands under the Help pull-down-menu A combination of moving and resizing using the hot point at the lower right corner of the graphics window, allows control of the size and placement of the image. The Mac graphics-window expansion box is at the far right of title bar. Large monitors may need greater than default memory size for full-screen; before running MAGE, Get-Info on the Macintosh File pulldown menu allows increasing the Minimum and Preferred Size. On the PC, the graphics and the button panel are in separate windows, so blindly expanding the graphics can cover essential controls.