Lorsque vous démarrez la version GNOME de l'Outil de maths Genius, la fenêtre Figure 2.1, « Fenêtre de l'Outil de maths Genius » apparaît.
La fenêtre de l'Outil de maths Genius contient les éléments suivants :
Les menus de la barre de menus contiennent toutes les commandes dont vous aurez besoin pour travailler avec les fichiers dans l'Outil de maths Genius. Le menu Fichier contient les éléments pour charger et enregistrer des éléments et créer de nouveaux programmes. La commande Charger et exécuter... n'ouvre pas de nouvelle fenêtre pour le programme mais exécute seulement le programme directement. Elle est équivalente à la commande load.
The Calculator menu controls the calculator engine. It allows you to run the currently selected program or to interrupt the current calculation. You can also look at the full expression of the last answer (useful if the last answer was too large to fit onto the console), or you can view a listing of the values of all user defined variables. You can also monitor user variables, which is especially useful while a long calculation is running, or to debug a certain program. Finally the Calculator allows plotting functions using a user friendly dialog box.
The Examples menu is a list of example programs or demos. If you open the menu, it will load the example into a new program, which you can run, edit, modify, and save. These programs should be well documented and generally demonstrate either some feature of Genius Mathematics Tool or some mathematical concept.
The Programs menu lists the currently open programs and allows you to switch between them.
Les autres menus contiennent les mêmes fonctions classiques qui apparaissent dans d'autres applications.
La barre d'outils contient un sous-ensemble des commandes accessibles à partir de la barre de menus.
La zone de travail est la principale méthode d'interaction avec l'application.
The working area initially has just the Console tab, which is the main way of interacting with the calculator. Here you type expressions and the results are immediately returned after you hit the Enter key.
Alternatively you can write longer programs and those can appear in separate tabs. The programs are a set of commands or functions that can be run all at once rather than entering them at the command line. The programs can be saved in files for later retrieval.