THE MENUS  



Below the title screen at the top of the window is the menu bar.  There are 6 menu items in Darwin Pond.  They are listed below (more detailed descriptions can be found in the appropriate help topics).  



Pond---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lets you load up Sample Ponds or "Gardens" of Eden, save ponds, or load your own custom ponds.  



Swimmer---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cut

If there is a swimmer selected, choosing this menu option will delete the swimmer and place a copy of it in memory (the clipboard).  



Copy

If there is a swimmer selected, choosing this menu option will make a copy of the swimmer and place it in the clipboard.  



Paste

If there is a swimmer which you have "cut" or "copied" into the clip board, choosing Paste causes that swimmer to be pasted into the pond.  If there is a swimmer currently selected, the newly pasted swimmer replaces that swimmer.  If there is no swimmer selected, the newly pasted swimmer appears in the middle of the microscope view.    



View-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lets you control a few microscope settings: Full Screen, Autotracking, Track Selected Swimmer, and Locate Selected Swimmer.  



Tools----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Replicates all the tools functionality in the tool set.  



Options------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Has a variety of menus such as:

Tweak Ecology

Play Movie

Sound Effects

Music

Preferences

Population Graph

Color Population Graph

Freeze Simulation



Help----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Brings up the Help facility you are using now.







CONTEXT-SENSITIVE MENUS

Also, there are right mouse button click (context sensitive) menus.  These are described below:



Swimmer---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you click with your right mouse button in the pond, you can get one of two context sensitive menus:  1) swimmer menu, or 2) general functions menu.  The swimmer menu has the following items:



Cut

Copy

Paste

Save

Load

Kill Swimmer

Clone Swimmer

Zap Swimmer

Engineer Swimmer

Get Swimmer Info.



General--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you right mouse click into the pond area (not on a swimmer), the following menu appears: 



Tweak Ecology

Play Movie

Sound Effects

Music

Preferences



These items correspond to the same-named functions as they appear in the Options menu in the menu bar.



Graph---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This menu appears when you right-mouse click into the graph area.  It asks you which of the two graphs you want to display.  



Test Tubes-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

By right-mouse clicking onto a test tube, you get a menu with the options "Load Specimen", or "Save Specimen".