
This list will expand over the coming months. Help | Sample Sketches & Tools uses the new RDB browser to display a list of sample documents available from.Videos embedded in Help are now hosted on YouTube and so require internet access. All former Flash content in the Help system has been replaced with modern equivalents.The Help menu has been revised to feature callouts to the Learning Center, the Reference Center, the Picture Gallery, and to Sample Sketches & Tools.Sketchpad 5.1 now includes Sketchpad Help:.

The RDB:// scheme now works again in Link buttons, and the RDB browser can now display a list of Sketchpad documents stored anywhere on the internet and open them within Sketchpad with no access to files or the local file system.Newly transformed polygon interiors are now created with their perimeter frame visible if their transformational pre-image was displaying its frame at the moment they are created, overriding the setting of Edit | Preferences | Tools | Frame New Polygon Perimeter (which now only applies to polygons constructed by their vertices using the Polygon Tools or via Construct | Polygon Interior).The About Sketchpad menu item now displays a scrolling list of development credits.Sketchpad no longer crashes on quit if tools have been created but Script View has never been shown.The software no longer reports "assertions" on a variety of internally suspect conditions, though note turning "off" these assertions may in turn promote other incorrect behavior.This is the first 5.1 field test release to feature Sketchpad Help (including the Learning Center, the Reference Center, and the Picture Gallery). New in 3056ģ056 is a feature-complete late-beta release approaching our release candidate. When using this build, please report any defects you encounter by e-mail here.
#Geometers sketchpad online archive#
zip archive of the latest beta release.Ī brief FAQ may help troubleshoot any issues when getting started.
