GChemPaint/C2/Basic-operations/English
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.
| Visual Cue | Narration |
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| Slide Number 1
Title Slide |
Hello everyone.
Welcome to the tutorial on Basic Operations in GChemPaint. |
| Slide Number 2
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to-
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| Slide Number 3
System Requirements |
Here I am using,
Ubuntu Linux OS version 12.04. GChemPaint version 0.12.10. |
| Slide Number 4
Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial, you should be familiar with,
GChemPaint chemical structure editor. If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website. |
| Switch to GChemPaint application
Dash home >>In the Search bar type GChemPaint Click on the GChemPaint icon. |
To open a new GChemPaint application,
Click on Dash home. In the Search bar that appears, type GChemPaint. Click on the GChemPaint icon. |
| Let's begin the tutorial by opening an existing file. | |
| Click on File >>Open | Click on File menu, select Open and click on it. |
| A window containing files and folders opens. | |
| Select the file named “propane” | From here, Select the file named “propane”. |
| Click on Open | Click on Open, to open the file. |
| Let's add some text below the propane structure. | |
| Select “Add or modify a text”tool from toolbox.
Point to the Property page opens. |
Select “Add or modify a text” tool from the tool box.
Text tool's Property page opens. |
| Point to the fields. | The Property page contains fields like - Family, Style, Size, Underline, and a few others. |
| Point to Family >> scroll list | Family field has a list of font names.
Let's scroll down the list. |
| Select Arial Black | I will select Arial Black from the Family. |
| Click on the Display area | Click on the Display area below Propane structure.
You can see a blinking cursor enclosed in a green box. |
| Type ”Propane” | Let's type the name of the compound as “Propane”. |
| Change Style to Bold Italic. | Let's now change the Style to Bold Italic.
Select the text “Propane” click on Bold Italic. |
| Increase fontsize to 16 | I will increase the fontsize to 16.
Let's scroll down to 16 and click on it. |
| Observe the changes in the text. | |
| Point to Underline field.
Show the drop down list >> select Single |
Next, let's use Underline feature.
It has a drop down list with options- None, Single, Double and Low. Let's select Single. |
| Point to text. | Let's change the color of the text.
Default color of the text is “black”. |
| Point to the color field.
Click on drop down list. Select color to “purple” |
Click on the drop down arrow of the color field.
You can see different colors here. I will select “purple”. <Pause the narration> |
| Text position range>> -100 to 100 | We can also change the position of the text.
Position field has range from -100 to 100. |
| Select text>>click on up arrow >>Text moves up from Position “0” to “100” | Let's see how text changes.
Select text click on the up arrow triangle with the mouse. Text moves upwards. |
| Select text>> click on down arrow>>Text moves down from Position “0” to “-100” | Likewise if we click on down arrow triangle, text moves downwards.
<Pause the narration> |
| Bring text to normal position.
Type "0" in the position field >> click on the display area |
Let's bring the text to normal position.
Type 0 in the position field and click on Display area. |
| Slide Number 5
Assignment |
Here is an assignment for you.
Your completed assignment should look like this. |
| Let's now learn to select and move objects. | |
| From the Tool box, click on >>Select one or more objects. | From the “Tool box” click on the tool “Select one or more objects”. |
| Click on pentane | Click on “pentane”. |
| Press the left mouse button>> drag it to a different position >> release the mouse button. | Without releasing the mouse button, drag it to a different position.
Now, release the mouse. |
| Next let's to rotate an object. | |
| To rotate objects,>>click on “Select one or more objects” tool. | To rotate the objects, click on “Select one or more objects” tool. |
| point to the tools.
Flip the selection horizontally, Flip the selection vertically and Rotate the selection. |
The properties page has tools,
Flip the selection horizontally, Flip the selection vertically Rotate the selection. |
| To use these tools, | |
| Click on pentane structure>> Select Rotate the selection>> move the mouse pointer | Click on Pentane.
Select Rotate the selection option. Go to the Display area and place the mouse over the object. Move the mouse in the clock-wise and anti-clock-wise direction. Observe the rotation of the object.
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| Now, let's learn to flip the object. | |
| Flip the Pentane structure horizontally. | Let's flip the Pentane structure horizontally. |
| Click on Flip the selection horizontally tool>>flip structure horizontally. | Click on Flip the selection horizontally tool to flip the structure horizontally. |
| Slide Number 6
Assignment |
Pause this tutorial and Flip the selection vertically on your own. |
| Let's now group and align objects
To group objects, select all objects. | |
| Go to Edit menu >> click on Select all.
Press CTRL+A |
For this, go to Edit menu and click on Select All.
you can also press CTRL and A keys simultaneously. |
| Right click on any one of the objects. | Right-click on any one of the objects. |
| In the context menu >>select Group and/or align objects option. | The context menu opens.
Select Group and/or align objects option. |
| Point to the dialog box. | A dialog box pops up. |
| Click on Group check-box. | Click on Group check-box. |
| Uncheck Align and Space evenly options. | Uncheck Align and Space evenly options, if they are selected. |
| Click on OK button. | Click on OK button.
We see that the objects are grouped together. |
| Press CTRL+A >> select objects | Let us now align the objects.
Press CTRL+A to select all objects. |
| Right click on any one of the objects. | Right-click on any one of the objects. |
| In the context menu >>select Group properties option | The context menu opens.
Select Group properties option. |
| Click on Align check-box. | Click on Align check-box. |
| Click on the drop-down list.
point to Normal, Top, Mid-height, Bottom, Left, Center and Right. |
Align option has a drop-down list.
It has some options to align objects. |
| Select “Left” >> click OK | I will select “Left” click on OK button.
Observe the changes. |
| Slide Number 7
Assignment |
Pause this tutorial and align objects with other align options on your own. |
| Let's now learn to use cut, copy and paste options. | |
| Go Edit menu >> Point to Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear. | Go to Edit menu.
It contains basic Edit options like Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear. |
| Point to options | The common short-cut keys for these options
CTRL+X to Cut CTRL+C to Copy CTRL+V to Paste will work in GChemPaint as well. |
| using “Select one or more objects” tool>> cut and paste objects>>at different places of diplay area | Select one or more objects using “Select one or more objects” tool.
click on the object. Let's press CTRL+X to cut it. Press CTRL+V to paste the object at a different position on the Display area. Observe that when we cut the object, it is deleted from its original place. |
| Copy and paste objects>>at different places of diplay area. | Next, let's copy and paste the object at a different place on the diplay area.
click on the object, press CTRL+C to Copy and press CTRL+V to Paste. Observe that when we Copy the object, it is not deleted from its original place. |
| Select all objects >>click on clear. | To clear the Display area, select all objects.
press CTRL+ A to select all objects. Go to Edit menu, click on Clear. |
| Go to Edit menu>>select Undo >>press CTRL+Z >> to Undo | To get back our original structures, go to Edit menu click on Undo.
Or press CTRL+Z. |
| Delete the object using Delete key from keyboard. | To delete an object using the Delete Key on the Keyboard, Select the object press Delete key from Keybord
Press Delete. |
| Point to Eraser tool. |
Let's now learn to use the Eraser tool to delete part of the structure. |
| Select Eraser tool>>move mouse near one structure. | Select Eraser tool from toolbox.
Place the mouse near any one of the structures. |
| Delete red colored part of the structure. | Part of the structure turns red in color.
Click on the red colored part of the structure to delete it. |
| Undo the changes | Let's now Undo the changes to get our original structures. |
| Click on Save the current file button on tool bar | Let's now save the file.
Click on Save the current file button on toolbar. |
| With this, we come to the end of the tutorial.
Let's summarize. | |
| Slide Number 8
Summary |
In this tutorial, we have learnt how to
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| Slide Number 9
Assignment |
As an assignment, use Eraser tool and convert
The Output of Assignment should look like this. |
| Slide number 10
Acknowledgement |
Watch the video available at this URL.
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project. If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
| Slide Number 11 | The Spoken Tutorial Project Team:
Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials Gives certificates to those who pass an online test For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org |
| Slide number 12 | Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at this link http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro ] This is Madhuri Ganpathi from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for joining. |
