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In the menu bar you find all the actions of KTurtle. There are in the following groups: File, Edit, View, Tools, Settings and Help. This section describes them all.
Creates a new, empty Logo file.
Opens a Logo file.
Opens a Logo file that has been opened recently.
Show the folder with examples Logo programs. The examples should be in your favorite language that you can choose in Settings->Configure KTurtle....
Starts the execution of the commands in the code editor.
Stops the execution. This action is only enabled when the commands are actually executing.
Saves the currently opened Logo file.
Saves the currently opened Logo file on a specified location.
Saves the current drawing on canvas into an image.
Prints either the current code in the editor or the current drawing on the canvas.
Quits KTurtle.
Undoes the last change to code. KTurtle has unlimited undo's!
Redoes an undone change to the code.
Cuts the selected text from the code editor to the clipboard.
Copies the selected text from the code editor to the clipboard.
Pastes the text from the clipboard to the editor.
With this action you can find phrases in the code.
Use this to find the next occurrence of the phrase.
With this action you can replace phrases in the code.
With this action you toggle the full screen mode.
Note: When code is executed while in full screen mode everything but the canvas is hidden. This makes it possible to write “full screen” programs in KTurtle.
With this action you can show the line numbers in the code editor. This can be handy for finding errors.
This action opens the color picker. Using the color picker you can easily select a color code and insert it in the code editor.
This action “indents” (adds white space at the beginning of) the lines that are selected. When “indentation” is used properly this can make code much easier to read. All examples use indentation, please check them out.
This action “unindents” (removes the white space at the beginning of) the lines that are selected.
This action cleans “indentation” (removes all the white space at the beginning of) the lines that are selected.
This action add comment characters (#) in from of the lines that are selected. Lines that start with a comment character are ignored when the code is executed. Comments allow the programmer to explain a bit about his code or they can be used to temporarily prevent a certain piece of code from execution.
This action removes the comment characters from the selected lines.
Toggle the Main Toolbar
Toggle the Statusbar
Here you can change things you normally do not need to change. The Advanced Settings submenu has three items: Configure Editor... (the standard Kate editor settings dialog), Configure Shortcuts... (the standard KDE shortcut settings dialog) and Configure Toolbars... (the standard KDE toolbars setting dialog).
This is used to configure KTurtle. Here you can change the language of the Logo commands or set a new initial canvas size.
This action shows the handbook that you are currently reading.
After activating this action the mouse arrow will be changed into a “question mark arrow”. When this arrow is used to click on parts of KTurtle main window, a description of the particular part pops-up.
This is a very useful function: it provides help on the code where the cursor in the code editor is at. So, e.g., you have used the print command in your code, and you want to read and to know what the handbook says on this command. You just move your cursor so it is in the print command and you press F1. The handbook will then show all info on the print command.
This function is very important while learning programming.
Use this to report a problem with KTurtle to the developers. These reports can be used to make KTurtle future versions better.
Here you find information on KTurtle like the authors and the license it comes with.
Here you can find information on KDE. If you do not know yet what KDE is, this is a place you should not miss!
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