User manual TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TI GRAPH LINK 2

[. . . ] English TI. GRAPH LINKé 2 FOR THE MACINTOSH® CONDENSED GUIDEBOOK Guidebook developed by: Texas Instruments Instructional Communications Note: This guidebook applies to the TI graphing calculators and accessories described on page 3. Graphic screens in this guidebook were captured from the TI-86 and TI-89. Screens from other products may be slightly different. Apple®, Macintosh®, Macintosh Drag-n-Drop® are registered trademarks, and TeachTextTM and SimpleTextTM are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents Contents Getting Started with TI-GRAPH LINK 2 for Macintosh. . . . . . . [. . . ] ­ or ­ · In the calculator window, double-click the screen object. To capture a new screen, open the Window menu and click Refresh ("+L) or click the circular icon in the picture viewing window. Printing a Captured Screen To print a captured calculator screen to a printer connected to your Macintosh: 1. Open the File menu, and then click Print to open the Print dialog box. Click Print. Saving a Screen as a File To save a calculator screen on the Macintosh: 1. Open the File menu, and then click Save As. Tip: Drag the screen object from the calculator window to the desktop to create a clipping file with a default name. 3. Click the appropriate radio button to select the file format in which the screen will be saved. Macintosh PICT format calculator PIC format (default) 4. Select the folder in which to save the file, and then click Save. ENG-8 TI-GRAPH LINK 2 for Macintosh Copying a Captured Screen To copy and paste a captured screen: 1. Select the part of the picture that you want to copy. To select the whole picture without a border, double-click. To select a portion, click in the window (cursor changes to a cross-hair), drag, and release. Click the border buttons once to add or remove a border. You can also open the Edit menu and click Select All (or press "+A) to select the whole picture. Copy the selection to the clipboard and paste it to an application, drag it to an application that supports Macintosh Drag-and-Drop, or drag it to the desktop. Setting the Screen Size (Resolution) for Printing Many desktop publishing and graphic applications use resolution (dots per inch, dpi) to determine the printed size of a captured screen. To set the resolution, see page 20. TI-GRAPH LINK 2 for Macintosh ENG-9 Using Group Windows Why Use a Group Window? By creating a group window on the Macintosh, you can store multiple calculator objects in one convenient location. The group window is saved as a file on the Macintosh, but you can open it and view or manipulate the objects within it the same as you would a folder. In the New Window, if necessary, click the triangle to the left of your calculator model to display a list of objects (Program, Group, etc. ). When at least two objects are selected, they are placed in a group window file on the Macintosh. To see the contents of a group window file, double-click it. ENG-12 TI-GRAPH LINK 2 for Macintosh Sending Objects from the Macintosh to the Calculator Procedure To send objects from a Macintosh to a calculator: 1. Open a calculator connection (page 5). Note: When you send new objects to a calculator that uses folders, the objects are placed in the main folder. 2. · To send all objects in a group window, select the group window file itself or open the group window and select all of the objects. · To send one or more particular objects, select only those objects. Important: To stop a transfer, click Cancel in the Macintosh dialog box. If an object from the Macintosh has the same name as an existing object on the calculator, a dialog box prompts you to: · Click Replace All to replace all the files with conflicting names. · Click Skip to skip the current file that has a conflicting name and continue sending any other files. (If there are more files with conflicting names, you can view and skip them one at a time. ) · Click Cancel to cancel the sending operation. [. . . ] From the drop-down list, select Printing Extras, click Print Page Headers, and click OK. Setting the Sorting Preference To set the sorting (View by) preference: 1. In the View by line, select Name, Kind, or Size, and click OK. Setting the Resolution of a Captured Screen Resolution does not affect how a screen is displayed in TI-GRAPH LINK. However, many desktop publishing and graphic applications use resolution (dots per inch, dpi) to set the size of the screen when printed. Before capturing a screen, open the Edit menu, click Preferences, select Pictures from the drop-down list, and then select the resolution. For example: If a captured screen is 72 pixels tall, a resolution of 72 dpi makes the picture 1 inch tall. [. . . ]