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Town - A Simple Project
Imagine a small scene consisting
of a road, some houses, cars and a sky complete with clouds
and a sun.
Cars
and houses will be chosen from a pop-up window. The clouds
will be a stack object and the sun will be a single movable
object.
The
final project will be saved for others to use and with have
tools to shrink and enlarge items, write text and bin the
items on screen.
The
Background
Click on the Background icon
to load a Background.
Choose a suitable file.
Alternatively you could paint your own background
using the Imagine Logo Painting Tools; or create a background
in another paint program; or download a useful picture from
the Internet.
The
Bin
Click on the Bin Tool  and
place a Bin Tool on the page.
The Cars
Click on the Group of Stacks/Pop-up Window
Tool 
and click on the page.
A chooser will open:
hoose a graphic file which will represent
the whole group of cars.
You can make this graphic smaller using
the Shrink  Tool.
Reposition this graphic if you wish. Click
on the graphic with the right mouse button and select Move. The graphic will attach itself to the mouse ready to be placed
elsewhere.
A grey pop-up window will appear next to
your graphic. You can resize this by dragging its lower right
corner when you see the two pointed arrow.
Use the Stack Object/Single Item Tool 
and add a selection of cars to the grey pop-up window.
Reposition the graphics if you wish. Click
on a graphic with the right mouse button and select Move. The graphic will attach itself to the mouse ready to be placed
elsewhere in the pop-up window.
You can modify the shapes (e.g. change the
colour) using the Edit
Shape right-click menu option.
You can resize shapes using the Grow/Enlarge Tool 
and the Shrink Tool .
You can erase any unwanted Stack object
or Group of Stacks/Pop-up windows using the Erase 
Close the grey pop-up window (use the X
button) and try out the new pop-up window:
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Click on the graphic - it opens the
group of cars
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Click on any item in the group
- the group window is closed and a new movable object
is attached to your mouse pointer (with no button pressed)
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Place this new item on your scene
(click once to release).
The Houses
A group of houses can be created in a similar
way using the Group of Stacks/Pop-up window Tool .
Instead of cars, this time select
a few different houses.
The Clouds
You want to have just one kind of cloud
in this project. Use the Stack object/Single item Tool
to create a single stack object for the clouds.
Choose a shape for the cloud.
You can resize the cloud using the Grow/Enlarge
Tool and
the Shrink Tool .
On each click the cloud Stack object generates
identical, movable clouds.
The Sun
You only need one sun in this project. Therefore
use the Movable object Tool  and
click to place the object on the page.
Choose
a suitable sun shape for the sun object.
You can resize the cloud using the Grow/Enlarge
Tool and
the Shrink Tool .
Text
There are two ways to put some text on the
page:
You can add text to the original background
picture.
Use the Text Tool  to
create text. Click to place the Text Tool
on the page, then use it to create text:
Leave the Text Tool on
screen so that it appears in the final saved project or delete
it with the Erase Tool .
Pages
The project can contain multiple pages.
Click on the New page Tool  and
a new page is added to your project.
The new
page gets a back page button  in its left upper
corner and at the same time the current page gets a forward
page button  in its upper right
corner. Use these buttons to browse through your pages.
You can modify the positions and/or shape
of these buttons using their right-click menus:
If you wish to delete a page, right-click
on the background and choose 
(NB. Only the last page in a multiple page
project can be deleted).
Other Tools for your Project
If you want to be able to grow/enlarge or
shrink the movable objects in the final project add the Grow/Enlarge
Tool  and/or
the Shrink Tool  to
the page.
To use this tool in the final project you
must pick up a movable object and move it on top of the tool
and then click it again.
If the shapes of your objects can be rotated
(i.e. if they have multiple angle sections) then you can put
the Rotate Tool 
on the page and it will allow you to rotate the movable objects
in the final project. To use this tool in the final project,
click on a movable object and move it on top of the tool and
then click it again.
If you want to be able to add text in the
final project then add a Text Tool to
the page. To use the Text Tool in the final project click
on it and type in your text in the space provided and click
OK. A movable object containing your text is created and can
be repositioned on the screen.
If you place the Paint Tool  on
the page you can access the standard Imagine Logo painting
toolbar. Clicking on this tool to open/close the standard
Imagine Logo painting toolbar in your final project.
If you want to make objects cling to a screen
area when the graphic gets close, add a hotspot magnet to
your page  .
If you make a mistake you can erase any
of these tools from the page using the Erase Tool To
Save a Project
You can save the project using the Save Project  Tool.
An Imagine Logo project file will be written to the disk.
If you open the project without using the
Framework environment, there will be no toolbar and you can
only use tools which were placed on the page.
To further develop the saved project you
must first load the Framework environment and then use the
Load Project Tool to load the project into the Framework environment.
To
exit the Framework
To exit the Framework use the keyboard shortcut
ALT + F to open the file menu and select Exit from
this menu.
Important
comment about images
All the images used for object shapes must
have their Hot Spots inside the picture's rectangle. Otherwise
you will experience problems when moving the objects (the
Hot Spot of the moved objects follows your mouse cursor).
You can check the Hot Spot of an image using LogoMotion. Load
the image into LogoMotion and push the Hot Spot  Tool. This changes
the Hot Spot's position. You will see a cross indicating the
position of the Hot Spot. If it is outside the picture then
you must move it to a desired place inside the picture:
For animated images you should select all
the frame items:
and then choose Organize Set Hot Spot
Using its Quick select feature you can position
the Hot Spot for all frame items:
Sometimes
this technique may spoil the animation. In such a case you
need to alter each frame item separately.
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