The Main Screen

This section describes the main screen of KPuzzle. All its obvious possibilities and secret features are explained here.

On the left, there is the playing area. A left-click tries to place a piece at the position of the mouse pointer.

By clicking the right or middle mouse button, you may turn the piece. Please read below about the turning buttons. Around the playing area, there are the moving buttons, with which you move around the visible area of the picture.

If you have set the option Right Mouse Button pans around, dragging with the right mouse button will move the image around instead of turning it. In this case, you may also want to set the Turn Pieces around option.

On the right side, you see the points you have got and the time which remains for completing the puzzle. Below, there are two little pictures: The upper one shows the current status of the puzzle, the second shows a thumbnail of the entire picture.

The last area on the right side is the Piece Window. It shows the piece you are currently playing with. The Next and Previous buttons switch to another piece. Be aware that these buttons are deactivated if you play in the Unbearable mode and that you might be unable to switch to certain pieces when the time for this piece has run out or its faults counter is zero. Please read about this in the Getting started section.

Left to the Piece Window, there are the Turning Buttons. You may set in the Properties dialog which meaning these buttons should have. Note that clicking the middle mouse button in the Playing Area is equivalent to pressing the lower turning button and clicking the right mouse button has the meaning of pressing the upper turning button, if the option Right mouse button opans around is not set.

The Menu Commands

This section describes how all the menu commands.

The commands in the file menu make it possible to start, save or finish a game.

The commands in the Game menu affect the game itself.

After executing any command of the game menu, you have to click somewhere in the application window to continue.