Advanced UsageTable of Contents
Kig has context menus for its objects. Try mouse button clicking on an object in order to see a context menu appear. There are many options: for constructing other objects, setting colours, pen width, style, and even hiding, moving or deleting objects. Some objects have options of their own (e.g. you can redefine certain points to be constrained to a line if they previously weren't, etc.). These options should be very straightforward to understand.
Some of the actions in the context menu of an object need another defined object as reference, for example:
- Rotate a shape a specific number of degrees around a point
Click on → → and make your desired angle of rotation somewhere in the Kig window, generally in an unobtrusive place. If desired, right click on the angle and click on → .
Click with the mouse button on the angle and select and insert the new size for this angle in the dialog.
Click on menu and construct your desired object.
Right click on your shape, and select on → .
Set your desired point of rotation.
Click on your angle.
Your shape is rotated!
- Translate an object
Click on → → and construct the object by selecting the start and end point somewhere in the Kig window.
To adjust length and direction of the vector you have to edit its start and end point. Select them and choose in the context menu.
Click on and construct your desired object.
Right click on your object, and select on → .
Select the vector to translate by.