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## General Tips

- Icons
  Clicking an icon with the left mouse button activates it and displays any existing sub-menus or sub-windows. An active icon has a green background. To deactivate an icon, you have to click it again.

  Clicking an icon with the right mouse button will open the online help window, whose contents pertain to the current icon.

  If you are asked to click an icon, you should unless specifically instructed otherwise, execute a single click with the left mouse button while the mouse pointer is positioned on it.

- Sub-Menus
  The individual menu fields of a sub-menu are activated by clicking on them.

  Figure 1: Sub-Menus

- Windows
  Basic description of windows:

  Figure 2: Basic description of windows

  1
    padlock-symbol
    You close a window by clicking on the padlock-symbol.

  2
    Top bar
    To move a window, you click into the top bar and move the mouse while keeping the left button depressed.

  3
    ?-symbol
    To get online help, you click the ?-symbol.

  4
    Window corner
    To change the window's size, move the mouse pointer to a window corner (this makes a corner-with-arrow symbol appear), click and hold down the left mouse button and drag the corner to the desired position (size).

  5
    Scroll bars
    Windows sometimes have scrolling bars along the right side (vertical) or along the bottom (horizontal). These scroll bars display the current position of the text in the window.
    By dragging the scroll bars, you can move the text in a smooth, continuous way. Short clicks on the bars produce a jumpy scroll.

- Entering points
  When SISCAD-P expects you to enter a point, you can either select a point with the left mouse button, or you can generate a new point using a click on the middle mouse button.
  These two types of input are displayed differently so they can easily be distinguished:

  Figure 3: Differently display by entering points

  Selected points are marked by a double circle, all other (generated) points are marked by a crosshair in the circle.

- Command conclusion
  You conclute (terminate and request execution) the input of a command by clicking the right mouse button in the graphic window. As long as the command has not been concluted, the expected geometric results of the commands are displayed in a special color.

- Exit SISCAD-P

  To exit SISCAD-P, click the left mouse button on the MARS-head (the STAEDTLER corporate logo) located in the upper icon bar.
  A second click on the text exit will terminate your SISCAD-P session.

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