Creating Shapes Using Floating Tools




You can use the Shape tool in the Floating Tools toolbar to add a shape to the interactive screen.




To create shapes using Floating Tools

NOTE: The Shape button isn't included in the default Floating Tools toolbar. However, you can customise the Floating Tools toolbar by adding and removing tools. For the following steps, the Floating Tools toolbar must include a Shape button.

  1. Press ShapeFTShapes.png in the Floating Tools toolbar and then select one of the available shapes.

  2. Press the screen where you want to place the shape and then drag until the shape is the size that you want.

  3. When you have finished creating shapes, press Select FTSelect.pngin the Floating Tools toolbar. Otherwise, SMART Notebook continues to create shapes when you press the screen.

NOTES

If a program is Ink Aware (that is, it's integrated with SMART Notebook), whatever you write or draw on the interactive product becomes a component of the program file. You can save your changes by saving the file.

If a program is non-Aware, whatever you write or draw on the interactive product appears on a transparent layer over the current program. You can take a screen capture of your notes and the program at any time using the Screen Capture toolbar. Each screen capture appears as an image in a .notebook file.




To customise the Shape floating tool

  1. Press ShapeFTShapes.png in the Floating Tools toolbar and then press Customise FTCustomizeTool.png.




The Properties dialogue box appears.

  1. Press the shape that you want to customise from the Floating Tools toolbar.

  2. Press Fill Effects.

  3. Select the transparency and fill effects for the shape.

  4. Press Line Style and then select the line's colour, thickness and style.

  5. Press Save Tool Properties.