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carapace

Usage:
Type help(carapace) for information about windowed versions of MacAnova



Keywords: general
Windowed forms of MacAnova from version 5.00 onwards use the Carapace
and wxWidgets libraries to provide graphical user interfaces.  This 
help topic describes features common to those versions.  

There are several other related help topics that you may wish to
explore.  Topic 'nongui' describes non-windowed MacAnova.  Topics
'dos_windows', 'macintosh', and 'unix' describe specifics for those
platforms.  Topics 'launching' and 'customize' describe the use of
command line options, MacAnova options, and initialization files.

Windowed forms of MacAnova allow multiple command/output and high
resolution graphics windows and also use menus, dialogs, the mouse,
and so forth in the standard way.  A command window has two panes,
a lower pane, into which commands are typed, and an upper pane,
into which results are printed. Output and graphics windows can be
printed and/or saved to files.

When you type into the command window, any unmatched quotes, braces,
brackets, or parentheses will be highlighted.  If you specify a
filename as "", then a dialog box will be opened to allow you to
select the file interactively.

                              The Clipboard
Text in a command window can be copied to the clipboard.  Content of
a graphics window can be copied to the clipboard as a bitmap.  The
MacAnova variable CLIPBOARD is connected to text on the clipboard in
the sense that accessing CLIPBOARD returns a MacAnova string containing
the text content of the clipboard, and assigning to CLIPBOARD writes
text to the clipboard.

                          Command Window Menus
File Menu Items
    Open              Open a text file in a new command window.
    Save              Save the output pane of this window to a file.
    Save Window As    Save, but allow a name change.
    Page Setup        Set up for printing.
    Print Window      Print the output pane of this command window.
    Interrupt         Stop processing the current MacAnova command.
    Restore           Restore a MacAnova workspace from a file.
    Save Workspace    Save your workspace to a file.
    Save Workspace As Save your workspace to a file, changing the name.
    Quit              Quit MacAnova

PLEASE NOTE: saving the window saves your output but not your data.
Saving the workspace saves your data but not your output.  You may
wish to do both.

Edit Menu Items
    Undo/Redo         Undo or redo last change in output pane.
    Cut               Cut text.
    Copy              Copy text.
    Paste             Paste text.
    Copy to Command   Copy the selection to the command pane
    Execute           Copy the selection to the command pane and execute
    Back History      Move back through command history
    Forward History   Move forward through command history

Windows Menu Items
    Hide              Hide this window.
    Close             Close this window.
    New               Open a new command window.
    Output Windows    A submenu allowing you to access command windows.
    Graph Windows     A submenu allowing you to access graphics windows.
    Set Font          Change the font in this command window.
    Scroll to Top     Scroll to the top of the output pane.
    Scroll to Bottom  Scroll to the bottom of the output pane.
    Move to Command   Move keyboard and pointer focus to the lower pane.

Help Menu Items
    Help              General help on MacAnova, or help on the selection.
    About             Information about MacAnova.

Keyboard equivalents.
There are keyboard equivalents for many of the menu commands.  For
example, up and down arrows in the command pane do backward and 
forward in the command history.

Button equivalents.
Each command window has six buttons across the bottom.  Five of
these implement the undo, execute, back history, forward history,
and interrupt menu items.  The sixth is Clear, which clears the text
in the command pane.

On the same row with the buttons are two status displays.  The first
indicates when MacAnova is processing a command by displaying the text
"Running".  The second tells you how far back you are in the command
history at any given point.
	
                          Graphics Window Menus
File Menu Items
    Save Graph As     Save the graph as jpeg, tiff, png, or PostScript.
    Page Setup        Set up for printing.
    Print Window      Print the graph. 
    Interrupt         Stop processing the current MacAnova command.
    Quit              Quit MacAnova

Edit Menu Items
    Copy              Copy the graph to the clipboard as a bitmap.

Windows Menu Items
    Hide              Hide this window.
    Close             Close this window.
    Zoom in           Zoom in on the graph
    Zoom out          Zoom out on the graph
    Fit               Redraw the graph to fit the window exactly.
    Fit keep aspect   Redraw the graph but maintain the aspect ratio.
    Set aspect ratio  Set the aspect ratio for the graph.
    Output Windows    A submenu allowing you to access command windows.
    Graph Windows     A submenu allowing you to access graphics windows.


Gary Oehlert 2005-08-12