Cocoa Reference Manual

referenceforPDF.html Page 1 This is a Reference Manual for Cocoa. It documents common operations, tools, windows and menus in Cocoa DR2. There is a brief description of each item for your reference. Here's a quick index: Common Operations Working with Appearances | Working with Sounds | Selection Windows, Graphics & Tools Controls | Rule Actions | Rule Editor | Checklist | Piece Editor Tracing Lights | Rule Sets | Click Responses | Key Responses | Variables Appearance Editor | Sound Editor | World Variables | Board Settings | About This World Cocoa Menu Reference Apple | File | Play | Board | Piece | Appearance | Sound | Paint | Window Mon, Jun 23, 1997 12:07 PM referenceforPDF.html Page 2 Common Operations Selection Pieces on the board can be selected using the standard Macintosh selection conventions (e.g., clicking on a piece selects it, shift-clicking toggles the piece in or out of the set of currently selected pieces, mousing down on an empty area of the board and dragging enables the user to marquee select.) Pressing the delete key deletes the current selection. Option-dragging pieces makes a copy of the dragged items. Working with Appearances Changing a Piece's Appearance There are four ways to change a piece's current appearance. All have the same effect on the piece. 1) With the desired Piece selected, select an appearance from the Appearance Menu, 2) Drag an appearance from the Appearances window onto the piece, 3) Command Mouse Down on the piece to bring up a picture popup menu and select one, or 4) Drag an appearance from the Appearances window into the Appearance variable box. If a rule is being recorded when any of these are done, the appearance change action is recorded in the rule. If you drag one piece's appearance from its Appearances window onto a DIFFERENT type of piece, that other type of piece will NOT change to that appearance. (Note: if the 2nd piece does have an appearance with that same name, it will change to that appearance.) An appearance belongs to the specific type of piece for which it was drawn. You can copy an appearance from one piece's Appearances window to another piece by dragging an appearance from one piece's Appearances window to the other piece's Appearances window. Working with Sounds Adding Sound to a …