GChemPaint/C2/Basic-operations/English-timed

Title of the tutorial: Basic-operations

Author: Madhuri Ganapathi

Key words: Add and Edit text, Select, Move, Flip and Rotate objects, Group and Align Objects, Cut, copy, paste and delete objects, video tutorial.

Time	Narration
00:01	Hello everyone.
00:02	Welcome to the tutorial on Basic Operations in GChemPaint.
00:07	In this tutorial, we will learn to-
00:11	*Open an existing file
00:14	*Add and Edit text
00:17	*Select, Move, Flip and Rotate objects
00:21	*Group and Align Objects
00:25	*Cut, copy, paste and delete objects.
00:30	Here I am using,
00:32	Ubuntu Linux OS version 12.04,
00:36	GChemPaint version 0.12.10.
00:42	To follow this tutorial, you should be familiar with,
00:48	GChemPaint chemical structure editor.
00:52	If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website.
00:58	To open a new GChemPaint application,
01:01	Click on Dash home.
01:04	In the Search bar that appears, type GChemPaint.
01:08	Click on the GChemPaint icon.
01:12	Let's begin the tutorial by opening an existing file.
01:16	Click on File menu,
01:20	select Open and click on it.
01:24	A window containing files and folders opens.
01:29	From here, Select file named “propane”.
01:32	Click on Open, to open the file.
01:36	Let's add some text below propane structure.
01:42	Select “Add or modify a text”tool from toolbox.
01:47	Text tool Property page opens.
01:50	The Property page contains fields like - Family, Style, Size, Underline, and a few others.
02:02	Family has a list of font names.
02:06	Let's scroll down the list.
02:11	I will select Arial Black from the Family.
02:15	Click on the Display area below Propane structure.
02:20	You can see a blinking cursor enclosed in a green box.
02:25	Let's type the name of the compound as “Propane”.
02:32	Let's now change the Style to Bold Italic.
02:35	Select the text “Propane” click on Bold Italic.
02:42	I will increase the font size to 16.
02:46	Let's scroll down to 16
02:48	and click on it.
02:50	Observe the changes in the text.
02:53	Next, let's use Underline feature.
02:57	It has a drop down list with options-
03:00	None,
03:01	Single,
03:02	Double,
03:03	and Low.
03:05	Let's select Single.
03:09	Let's change the color of the text.
03:12	Default color of the text is “black”.
03:16	Click on the drop down arrow of the color field.
03:20	You can see different colors here.
03:24	I will select “purple”.
03:28	We can also change the position of the text.
03:32	Position field has range from -100 to 100.
03:37	Let's see how the text changes.
03:40	Select the text.
03:44	Click on the up-arrow triangle with the mouse.
03:48	Text moves upwards.
03:50	Likewise if we click on down arrow triangle, text moves downwards.
03:59	Let's bring the text to normal position.
04:02	Type "0" in the position field,
04:05	and click on display area.
04:09	Here is an assignment for you.
04:12	Open the assignment of the first tutorial.
04:15	Label the structures as n-hexane and n-octane.
04:19	Change font name, font size, underline and colour the text.
04:26	Your completed assignment should look like this.
04:31	Now let's learn to select and move objects.
04:35	From the “Tool box” click on the tool “Select one or more objects”.
04:42	Click on “pentane”.
04:44	Without releasing the mouse button, drag it to a different position.
04:49	Now, release the mouse.
04:52	Next let's rotate an object.
04:55	To rotate the object, click on “Select one or more objects” tool.
05:01	The properties page has tools,
05:05	Flip the selection horizontally,
05:08	Flip the selection vertically,
05:10	Rotate the selection.
05:13	To use these tools,
05:14	Click on Pentane.
05:17	Select Rotate the selection option.
05:22	Go to the Display area and place the mouse over the object.
05:28	Move the mouse in the clock-wise and anti-clock-wise direction.
05:34	Observe the rotation of the object.
05:39	Now, let's learn to flip the object.
05:42	Let's flip Pentane structure horizontally.
05:47	Click on Flip the selection horizontally tool to flip the structure horizontally.
05:55	Pause the tutorial here and Flip the selection vertically on your own.
06:03	Let's now group and align objects.
06:06	To group objects, select all objects.
06:09	For this, go to Edit menu, click on Select All.
06:15	or you can press Ctrl and A keys simultaneously.
06:20	Right-click on any one of the objects.
06:24	The context menu opens.
06:26	Select Group and/or align objects option.
06:31	A dialog box pops up.
06:33	Click on Group check-box.
06:36	Uncheck Align and Space evenly options, if they are selected.
06:42	Click on OK button.
06:45	We see that the objects are grouped together.
06:51	Let us now align the objects.
06:54	Press Ctrl+ A to select all objects.
06:58	Right-click on any one of the objects.
07:01	The context menu opens.
07:04	Select Group properties option.
07:09	Click on Align check-box.
07:12	Align options has a drop-down list.
07:17	It has some options to align objects.
07:22	I will select “Left”
07:25	click on OK button.
07:29	Observe the changes.
07:32	Pause the tutorial here and align objects with other align options on your own.
07:41	Let's now learn to use cut, copy and paste options.
07:47	Go to Edit menu.
07:49	It contains basic Edit options like Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear.
07:57	The common short-cut keys for these options -
08:00	Ctrl+ X to Cut
08:02	Ctrl+ C to Copy
08:05	Ctrl+ V to paste, will work in GChemPaint as well.
08:10	Select one or more objects using “Select one or more objects” tool.
08:16	Click on the object.
08:18	Let's press Ctrl+ X to cut .
08:22	Press Ctrl+ V to paste the object at a different position on the Display area.
08:29	Observe that when we cut the object, it is deleted from its original place.
08:35	Next, let's copy and paste the object at a different place on the display area.
08:42	Click on the object, press Ctrl+ C to copy and press Ctrl+ V to paste.
08:50	Observe that when we copy the object, it is not deleted from its original place.
08:58	To clear the Display area, select all objects,
09:02	press Ctrl+ A to select all objects.
09:06	Go to Edit menu,
09:08	click on Clear.
09:11	To get back our original structures go to Edit menu,
09:16	click on Undo
09:19	Or press Ctrl+Z.
09:23	To delete an object using Delete Key on the Keyboard, Select the object.
09:29	Press Delete key from Keyboard
09:33	Let's now learn to use the Eraser tool to delete part of the structure.
09:39	Select Eraser tool from toolbox.
09:43	Place the mouse near any one of the structures.
09:48	Part of the structure turns red in color.
09:53	Click on the red colored part of the structure to delete it.
09:59	Let's now Undo the changes to get our original structures.
10:08	Let's now save the file.
10:11	Click on Save the current file button on toolbar.
10:16	With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.
10:22	Let's summarize.
10:24	In this tutorial, we have learnt how to -
10:27	*Open an existing file
10:29	*Add and Edit text to the display area
10:33	*Select, Move, Flip and Rotate objects
10:36	*Group and Align Objects
10:39	*Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete objects.
10:44	As an assignment, use Eraser tool and convert -
10:48	*n-octane structure to n-pentane
10:52	*n-hexane structure to Ethane.
10:56	The Output of Assignment should look like this.
11:00	Watch the video available at this URL.
11:04	It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
11:08	If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it.
11:13	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team:
11:15	Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials.
11:18	Gives certificates to those who pass an online test .
11:21	For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org.
11:28	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project .
11:32	It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
11:39	More information on this Mission is available at this link.
11:46	This is Madhuri Ganpathi from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for joining.

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