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CHAPTER 5
Using the Menus
Located in the menu bar, Atmosphere's pull-down menus include: File, Edit, Object, View, Window, and Help.
Menus may contain submenus, which are indicated by a small black arrow, that point to the right. The File menu
includes submenus for Import, Export and Publish.
Menus offer visual clues for keyboard shortcuts, dialog boxes and submenus.
Some menu commands, such as File > Save As, have an ellipsis (three dots in a row) next to the menu command. This
indicates that the menu command will open a dialog box.
Some menus items appear in light gray type, indicating that they are not available. An example of this is the Objects >
Ungroup command isn't enabled unless a grouped object is selected.
To the right of some menu items, a keyboard shortcut is listed, allowing these commands to be triggered from the
keyboard. Ctrl+S means hold down the Control key while typing S – this is the keyboard shortcut for the File > Save
command. A complete list of keyboard shortcuts can be found in Appendix B, "Atmosphere Keyboard Shortcuts."
All menus can be accessed using the keyboard by holding down the Alt key and pressing the letter that is underlined
on the main menu. For example, pressing Alt+F will select the File menu. Once a menu item is selected you can use
the arrow keys to move up and down the current menu or the left and right arrow keys to move to adjacent menus.
Pressing the Enter key will execute the selected menu option.
The File menu
The File menu holds commands for opening, saving and closing fi les in Atmosphere. Commands include New
(Ctrl+N), Open (Ctrl+O), Close (Ctrl+W) and Save (Ctrl+S). Each Atmosphere environment can have several
settings that defi ne attributes such as the environment's name and URL. These settings are entered in the World
Settings (Shift+Ctrl+S) dialog box. The File menu also includes commands to Import and Export objects and a
submenu to Publish a completed environment (Ctrl+P) along with the Exit (Ctrl+Q) menu command. At the bottom
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