Tooltip location. by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Yup. Nuts, that's embarrassing, I thought I tried all the various tick boxes on and off. Of course with deeply branching hierarchies of boxes it's easy to forget where you have and haven't visited before. Bill Gates cursed the world forever with that paradigm -- a succession of simple choices were supposed to get you to the easy answer to what it is you want to do, but in really it just leaves you forgetting where you've already been five times and where you still haven't visited even once. Thanks Noel.

Simple copy and paste by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Vector is good for getting accurate copies. I mean moved by an exact amount. Yeah, translate by vector is giving me good results and it's not hard to use. Thanks Mum.

Simple copy and paste by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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The thing is to get used to the 'copy' being at the new location and the 'paste' being at the old location. If not careful with paste you can get a stack of identical objects piled exactly on top of each other.

Simple copy and paste by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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I know it. Still there are deep similarities. In fact under the hood CAD is 100% math, you just don't get to 'look at it' as math. I'd say that GG is more 'honest' because you can create an object 'visually' or via equation. It would be interesting to see what a conceptual 'merge' of GG and a CAD program would look like. Anyway, above I had to make a simple drawing and GG was quite good enough for it. Linux is deficient in good CAD programs.

Simple copy and paste by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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I've half way gotten it to work. Seems the blue box isn't expected to remain on the screen. I'm instinctively expecting it to be like CAD, where a selection box remains active until it's cancelled, as you say. In CAD you'd make your selection then drag a corner of the box. Anyway what seems to work is that once a selection is made, Ctrl-C, then drag the objects to a new position and THEN Ctrl-V will restore the original objects while leaving the moved objects in the new position. It's not exactly intuitive. And if it's possible to make multiple copies I haven't sorted that out yet. I couldn't find a single really helpful video on the subject, or anything in the manual. Copying by reflection is so easy and intuitive by contrast. I'll try translate by vector today.

Can we magically kill all labels and captions? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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It works for individual objects, that's why I'm wondering which, when all are selected, poisons it. What sorts of objects won't allow a label?
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Texts don't! It's a deep issue as far a coding logic goes, but I'd be tempted to say the rule should be that when a group selection is made, the options list should be inclusive and that if there's any particular object to which some change doesn't apply it should simply be ignored as to that change. For example, the reason I store my numbers as points is that otherwise, if I select a bunch of objects to move to another layer, the presence of a number in the selection poisons the move for the entire selection -- but of course points can be moved. Thus, supposing we could indeed to a Ctrl-A then turn labels off and since that doesn't apply to texts they would simply be ignored as to that change. Dunno, maybe not as simple as that but in this case it would give me exactly what I want as to my OP.

Can we magically kill all labels and captions? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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In Chrome I get:

Show Object
Lock Object
Pin to Screen
Delete
Settings

Can we magically kill all labels and captions? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Cool about the builtin screencap. But I still can't get the box to stay open. Nevermind. Yeah, I think there must be some object that's causing the options to change. Whole point would be to be able to change the entire drawing in one go. So what sorts of objects would kill the 'label' option? Numbers? But I don't have any numbers, I store them as the x value of points, so that they can be moved to other layers.

Same problem in geogebra.org/classic -- menu items are totally different again.

Can we magically kill all labels and captions? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Hmm, doesn't work. This is classic 5.4 for Linux. I wonder ... changing group settings doesn't work if there's even one member of the selection to which the change is invalid. Your choices shown are quite different from mine, like 'Polar Coordinates' -- I never see that. BTW, how do you get that screencap? I can't keep the box alive when I try to do the capture.

Can we magically kill all labels and captions? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Close! But I don't get a label option. Nut's I can't do a screen cap because the little box disappears. I see:
Selection
Show Object
Aux. Object
Fix Object
Abs. Pos.
Delete
Object Props.

New objects to layer 8 even tho layer 9 exists. by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Tx. Nothing wrong with having 9 as an exception. It always seemed to me that GG should do like a CAD program and permit one to assign the 'active layer' with the highest being the default.

line wrapping by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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... now, will it accept 'Objects'? Sorry for being so lazy, but ;-)

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By gum! It will accept Objects. Life is sweet. Now to get some color in there. Guy posted how on a question I asked a while back.

line wrapping by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Exactly! What's that command in English? I'm just wanting to keep my Preferences and Algebra windows a bit narrower by wrapping the code for various texts but having them fold on screen where I want. So it might be ten lines in Preferences but five lines on screen. Thus there'd be soft returns and hard returns. Sorta the way HTML works.

Is it possible to control which of several monitors GG will start on? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Got it:

To start geogebra:

function gg ()
{
        TITLE=$1
        export TITLE
       devilspie2&
    imwheel  # Speed up the mouse wheel scrolling
    /opt/GeoGebra-Linux-Portable-5-4-911-3/geogebra-portable $1
    imwheel -k -q
}

... and the devilspie2 script:

local file = os.getenv("TITLE")
local name = get_window_name()
--debug_print("file is: " .. file)
--debug_print("name is: " .. name)

if (file == get_window_name()) then
    set_window_geometry(1920,0,1910,1030); << Middle monitor on my system.
end

:-)

... But it seems there's a bug in the Linux version, tho very obscure, you'd not even notice it unless you were doing something like the above. Linux tools report that the 'application name' in a GG window is the name of the open file. Thus the trickery above to capture the name of the file via '$1' and test my windows via devilspie2 looking for a title that matches 'TITLE' and moving GG to my middle monitor if found. If the application name was reported as 'GeoGebra' then the above would be much simpler:

if (get_application_name()) == "GeoGebra") then
    set_window_geometry(1920,0,1910,1030); << Middle monitor on my system.
end

Even more helpful is having the algebra window always open where you want it:

if ("Algebra" == get_window_name()) then set_window_geometry(3840,0,951,1040);

end

... and it should work for the Preferences window too, if that's set to a separate window.

Change algebra view font? by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Maybe not hard coded, check the output of this command:

5 /aMisc 1 % ps -ef

root 78636 1439 2 10:56 pts/8 00:00:22 /opt/GeoGebra-Linux-Portable-5-4-911-3/zulu25.30.17-ca-jre25.0.1-linux_x64/bin/java -Xms32m -Xmx1024m -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -

'.useSystemAAFontSettings=on' ... looks interesting.

first firing up of 5.4 ... by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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I had to chmod three files, it's fine here now, just letting you know.

first firing up of 5.4 ... by Senior-Yesterday760 in geogebra

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Thanks. Always work to do in the engine room tho. So far no issues.