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FEATURES
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here are some nice Kig features i'd like to show off :)
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- More than 40 various nice objects: from the easiest ones ( points ),
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up to lines, circles, conics, cubics, and more. See the Objects
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menu...
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- Macros: the power of constructing new objects using the builtin
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ones. If you want to try, open macrotest.kig, then click the
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button to the left of the fullscreen button, select the three
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corners of the triangle, then click the button again, click the
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circle, click the button again, type in a name. Then check out the
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new type with the other circle types. You can't really see the
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difference between built-in types and macro's
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- I've given quite some attention to making Kig as intuitive to use as
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possible. It has various unique features like the nice RMB menu's,
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the intuitive construction mode, etc.
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- is a KPart: try opening macrotest.kig from konqueror, if it doesn't
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work yet, open your kcontrol, then go to "File Browsing"->"File
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Associations", click add, group:"application", name:"x-kig", open
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the "embedding" tab page for the new type, click "add", find
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"KigPart" (if you installed Kig correctly (did you get the
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"--prefix" on your configure right?) , it should be there), and add
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it. then try opening macrotest.kig again
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- Kig supports various file formats... See the filters directory.
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Currently Kig has read-write support for native files ( which is an
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imho clean xml format ) and for the older version of the Kig file
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format; read support for KGeo, KSeg and, partially, for Dr. Geo
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and Cabri files. This is an area where we plan working on...
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- Kig can export a document in several formats: the most common are
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images, and you can choose among the types supported by Qt and KDE.
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Moreover, the other supported formats are: XFig files, and SVG and
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LaTeX documents. These are useful since not all other programs
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support Kig files yet... ;)
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- Kig is very compatible with the program it was intended to replace,
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KGeo. It supports all of its Object types and most of its file
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format...
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- There is a very flexible mechanism for supporting TextLabels with
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variable parts.. Check out the text label wizard for more
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explanation...
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- nice support for Locuses, inspired by KSeg's version of this. Check
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the documentation and examples/locustest.kig for more info..
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- flexible transformation facility
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PLANNED FEATURES
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For a list of planned features, check out the TODO file.
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