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the Command Icons. Basically, these are a keyboard shortcut you can use. Pressing a key from 1-9 will select the associated Menu, and pressing the Q,W,E,R & T keys activates a command from that menu. e.g 1Q selects the Niceness control from the General Options Menu.
There are also keyboard shortcuts for most of the functions in TOME, these are listed in the Editor Keyboard Shortcuts on page 32.
To move around the map area, you have a pretty good choice of options. You can use the stroller control in the right side of the main menu bar. Clicking on any of the directional arrows on this control will move the map by one tile (as you edit the map in tiles, it scrolls around a tile at a time). If you have a joystick plugged into your Amiga, then you can also scroll around using it. By pressing the Fire button, you can skip 10 tiles at a time. If the cursor keys are in "Move" mode (The default) then you can use them to scroll around also (Shift activates the skip 10 tiles function).
If you want to skip back to a particular point on the map, then you can store its location in one of the 10 Locator Marks. Holding down Shift and pressing one of the 10 function keys will memorise the current position on that key. Pressing the same function key (without Shift) will bring the map back to that point instantly. These 10 locator marks can also be played around with in the Locator Menu.
When you start up TOME will load the locators with 10 locations across the map going from top left to bottom right in a diagonal line.
Drawing a map couldn't be more simple ! Clicking on any tile in the tile selector on the left of the screen will select that tile, and clicking anywhere in the map area will place the currently selected tile onto the map at that position. As the map always works in terms of tiles, the tile will automatically snap to the nearest tile position (rather like pegging it to a board).
If you want to see more of the map area, you can press the Space Bar (or the Full Screen button), which will hide the menus. You can also use the A and A keys, which will scroll the palette off the left, giving you more of the map area in the screen. Pressing the Left Alt key and dragging the map area with the mouse gives you the same control.
In TOME you won't always be just placing single tiles. The editor has several (about 30) different modes that it can use, ranging from simple placement of the current tile (called Draw mode), through to complex evaluation of