Educational Insights EI-7924G Video Games User Manual


 
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The Window Menu
Select
Window New Window t
o open a duplicate of the
front most window and add a number to the end of the file
name displayed on the title bar designating which copy of the
window you’re viewing. One reason you might want to do this
is to
Select, Cut, Copy, and Paste clue cells from one window
to the other in order to rearrange the clues for the Jeopardy!
round of the game you are writing.
Select
Window Cascade to reduce the size of all open win-
dows and display them stacked down and to the right in the
order they are listed in the
Window menu. Click on the
Maximize/Zoom button on any window to return all the
windows to their full size.
Select Window Tile to resize all open windows and display them distributed as
evenly as possible on your screen without overlapping. Click on the Maximize/Zoom
button on any window to return all the windows to their full size.
The Help Menu
Select Help Show Special Characters,
or press ¤ to display a window with
the special characters you can make by
pressing
S + the appropriate keys. The window will stay on
screen until you click on the OK button. If the window is blocking
your view of a clue, you can move it to a different part of the
screen by clicking and dragging on the
Special Characters title bar
to move the window to the desired location.
Help About Classroom Jeopardy! Editor . . .
will display a
splash screen with the version number and copyright information
for the Classroom Jeopardy! Editor software.
The toolbar is located under the menu bar. It allows you to access certain options that are also
available in the menu bar. To choose an option, simply click on the appropriate icon. (To see what
an icon stands for
, use your mouse to move the arrow marker over it; a short description will appear,
indicating the purpose of the icon, and a longer description will appear in the status bar at the bot-
tom of the screen.)
Select the
New T
ool
to open a blank template for creating a new game.
Select the
Open T
ool
tool to display the Open dialog box. Click on a game file in
the
Open dialog box to select it, then click on the Open button to open the file.
Select
Save
As Tool
to open the Save as JGM dialog box.
Type the name under
which you want to save the file, then click on the
Save button to save the game.
The file will be saved with the suffix
.jgm”. A “.jgm” file is a Classroom
Jeopardy! Editor game file. It can only be opened and edited with Classroom
Jeopardy! Editor and is the file type used by Classroom Jeopardy! Editor cartridges.
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