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## Chapter 3. The Menu Reference

## Overview of Menus

Game

  This menu contains options affecting game play, such as starting and finishing games, saving games, loading saved games, showing high scores and getting a hint (if available). The Game Menu also contains the Quit option and an option to start the Tutorial game without going through the level selection dialog. You can also quit by clicking the X at the top right of the KGoldrunner window.

Editor

  This menu has everything you need to create your own games and levels and maintain them, including features to help you re-order levels or move them between games or to delete them when no longer needed. When you reorganize your levels, the level numbers in your game remain consecutive (no gaps) and the levels are automatically renumbered.

  When you are using the Game Editor a graphical toolbar with tool tip text appears under the menu bar. See the Game Editor for more details of how to create and edit KGoldrunner levels.

Landscapes

  This menu offers you a choice of landscapes (actually color schemes) in which to play. All the landscapes have keyboard shortcuts, so you can actually change the landscape as the game is playing. Try Shift+A, to switch to the nostalgic Apple II landscape.

Settings

  This menu has four groups of settings: the choice of mouse or keyboard control, the game-speed options, the choice of of “KGoldrunner” or “Traditional” playing rules (see Choice of Rules) and lastly the options to increase or decrease the size of the playing area. The current selections are checked. The settings are automatically selected when you start playing, but you can use this menu to vary them if you wish.

  On the KDE desktop version of KGoldrunner, there is also an option to re-assign keyboard shortcuts and hero-control keys.

Help

  The Help menu contains an option to start the Tutorial game, an option to get a hint (if available), access to the KGoldrunner Handbook (this document), About KGoldrunner and About KDE (or About Qt Toolkit).

  In the KDE desktop version, there is also an option to report a Bug or Wishlist item.

  If you would like to make a suggestion or you have some new levels to contribute, the current author's email address is in the About KGoldrunner menu item.

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