MacroSystem Akaba – New Concept - Manual (Page 11)

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5.) Rectangle (unfilled, filled)
Drawing is done as with Line. A filled or unfilled
rectangle can be drawn by selecting first the
upper-left and then the lower-right corner. The
cursor changes if the rectangle is optically a
square.
6.) Eraser
By clicking on this button you can delete your
drawings in the video frame. The currently
selected pencil is used. The video background is
not affected.
Operation is the same as described for the
Freehand tool.
The thickness of the eraser depends on the
current alpha value for the pencil color. An
alpha value of 100% causes everything under
the eraser to be removed. Smaller alpha values
result in only a partial erasure.
7.) Text
Clicking on this well-known symbol calls up
the Casablanca text-entry menu. The text
created with the titler is inserted into the Akaba
– New Concept drawing with all panels and
backgrounds. Only one page is supported.
Effects are not supported.
After the text has been inserted into Akaba –
New Concept, it is a normal part of the drawing.
If the titler is activated again, it contains the
most recently entered text, which can be
deleted or modified, but does not change the
text already inserted into Akaba. Modification
is possible only if you delete the text with Undo
immediately after inserting the text, and then
activate the titler again.
8.) Ellipsis
The ellipsis is created in the same way as a
rectangle, but the center point is specified first,
then the width and height of the ellipsis. If
you have optically drawn a circle, then this is
indicated by the cursor.
Note: If you draw a line, rectangle, or an ellipsis,
the cursor changes form to indicate when any of
the following special cases occur:
• horizontal, vertical or diagonal line (45°)
• a square
• a circle.
But this is different according to screen format
(4:3, 16:9, PAL/NTSC). The program uses the TV
standard. But depending on the setting, there
may be deviations from one TV to another. For
example, a rectangle with equal sides of 100 *
100 pixels is not a square.
3.1.4 Editing functions
1.) Edit
The most recent draw operation can be edited
after having been made. You can roughly draw
an object (line, rectangle, etc ...) and then edit
it in this submenu. You can move the object,
deform it, and/or change the pencil and color.
The Edit button is active if an object has been
drawn, but only if the object is not a freehand
object.
If you click the button after having drawn a
filled or unfilled polygon, then you will see
two buttons and a slider bar serving to move
the polygon. By clicking on the Move Polygon
button, you can move the entire polygon
anywhere on the screen and set the final
position with the left trackball key. The Move
Point button allows you to move just one point
of the polygon on the screen. You can achieve
this also directly in the drawing by moving
the cursor over one of the points. The cursor
changes its form when it is moved over the a
point. The slider bar jumps to the position of the
actual point. Now you only have to press the
Move Point button or click where the cursor has
changed form.
If you have just used another tool to draw an
object and you then click on Edit, you will see
a representation of your drawing tool in the
operating panel (line, circle, rectangle).
In this representation the active points of your