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| | 23 | A major part of Sophie's interface is in its use of '''halos''' and '''HUDs'''. Halos are the little icons that appear on the Sophie workspace. You can see three of them around the edges of the book desktop: a little paint bucket and a "plus" sign in the upper left corner and a two-headed arrow in the bottom right corner. If you move your mouse over them, a tooltip will appear to tell you what they do. |
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| | 25 | There are two basic kinds of halos in Sophie. The first kind can be used directly - by clicking or dragging. The second kind opens a HUD (short for ''head's display''') which offers you more controls. The idea of halos is to have as much functionality as possible close to where you are in Sophie, so you have to work less. This interface takes a little bit of time to get used to, but once you figure out the basics of it, you'll be able to do complicated things very quickly. |
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| | 27 | Here's a quick example. The halo in the bottom right corner of the book desktop - the one with the arrows - is the book resize halo, which is a halo you use directly. If you move your mouse over this halo, it says "Drag to resize the page", which is what it does. Drag this halo so the short wide rectangle becomes a tall, thin rectangle, like this: |
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