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Help!

If at any time you are unsure of an icon or button on the screen, you can look for it in this manual, or click on the HELP button (to the right of the command icons at the bottom of the screen) or press the HELP key on your keyboard.

By activating the Help ! system, any icon or button you point to on either menu screen will be explained by TOME in a window in the centre of the screen. You can still use all the functions of TOME while it is doing this ! To de-activate the Help ! system, click on Help again, and select Cancel from the alert box.

General Controls

On each menu bar, there is a grabber handle button, which looks like this:[+] : Dragging the window by this handle will let you move the menu bars to anywhere on the screen vertically, so that you can see what is on the map window under them. If you want to see the whole map window, simply press the Space Bar, or click on the FULL SCREEN Button on the bottom menu (next to the Help Button). This will flip the Map Window to the front, allowing you to work on all of it. You can also use the Left & Right Amiga keys to scroll the window left and right, thus allowing it to use the area taken up by the Tile Selector Palette. This can also be achieved by holding down the Left Alt key, and dragging the Map Window with the mouse.

Most TOME Functions are accessed by clicking with the left mouse button. The Right mouse button is allocated to a "useful" function for each command menu. For instance, clicking the right mouse button when in the normal Map Editing menu will take you to the Tile Selector Screen, so that you can quickly pick a tile from your entire list. Here are the Right Button "Useful" functions for each menu.



Menu                  Function

1) General Options    Jump to Map Edit Menu 1 
2) Disk Options       Select File types to use.
3) Utilities          Jump to Map Edit Menu 1
4) Map Edit 1         Select Tile
5) Map Edit 2         Select Tile
6) Brik Menu          Select Brik
7) Bank Manager       Fine Edit Current Tile
8) Fine Editor        Pick Colour
9) Locator control    Skip to next stored location

You will probably have noticed the numbers on each of the menu selector icons, and the letters Q,W,E,R and T on