VRweb basics

File menu

The file menu offers the following commands:

• Open... (accelerator key F3)

  opens a VRML scene file on the file system. The default file mask is *.wrl* which matches files ending with ".wrl" and ".wrl.gz". Select a directory or file by double-clicking it or entering its name in the field editor. Tip: "~" and "~user" can be used to refer to home-directories. Space can be used for filename completion (if no mask entered).

• Save/Save as... (accelerator key F2)

  lets you save the current scene to disk. You will be asked for confirmation before overwriting existing files. Save/Save as functionality only differs in edit mode.

• Export...

  is reserved for file conversions (currently from "SDF", the previous native scene format in Hyper-G, to VRML).

• Edit

  See help for the VRweb VRML editor.

• Edit, Print, Mail to

  are reserved for the appropriate functions.

• View Parser Output...

  opens a window containing the parser error messages and warnings. You can select the function again or press the OK button to close the window.

• Exit Viewer (accelerator key ctrl-x)

  exits VRweb.

Help menu

• Overview... (accelerator key F1)

  goes to the overview page of the on-line help in your web browser (if properly installed).

• About

  opens a window with version information.

Toolbar

The left group of icons changes the navigation mode to (in order):
Flip, Walk, Fly, Fly To or Heads Up.
The button on the right side toggles anchor display.

Keeping the mouse over a button for a second displays a bubble help window.

You can use the function keys F4 for flip, F5--F8 for walk to heads up and F9 for anchors. These keys have probably the same layout (spacing) on your keyboard as on the toolbar.

Status line

The left field of status line tells you either the document URL or the description and destination URL of a selected anchor.

On the right side you see the number of polygons and/or primitives (cubes, spheres, etc.) of the VRML data (including inlines) and the note "textured" if the scene containes texture images.

During download of inline data (WWWInline, textures), you get a progress indicator. The left field indicates the connection status (connect or transfer), the URL and the amout of data being downloaded. The stop button on the right side lets you abort the transfer.

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