Manual de Houdini 3 2012 | Page 17

General operation

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activation key, which you should carefully make a note of. Enter the key and the
security code (here SDGX) in the activation menu of your computer without an
Internet connection and click on OK.
If you have entered the details correctly your program will be successfully activated.

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You can use the Houdini serial number for one account on Playchess.com. Enter it
under Ac c ount - Ent e r Se ria l num be r and get one year of basic access.

2.2

Ribbons
The program offers a completely new design based on the guidelines of the „Microsoft
Fluent UI“. The so-called ribbons were first implemented by Microsoft in Office 2007.
The ribbon, also called a „band“, is a graphical display concept which combines the
elements of menus and icons. This concept offers many advantages when using a
complex program.

This means the end of the days in which users had to click through levels of menus
and submenus to find functions. Instead of this simple icons are displayed for the
program functions depending on the context the program is currently in. In the
window’s header words are listed – just as in traditional menus – which represent
groups of commands, such as St a rt , Inse rt or Boa rd .
However, clicking on a word doesn’t open a menu, it opens a list of icons that
represent the relevant commands. Each „menu“ has its own list of icons.

The ribbon takes up more room on the screen than the classical combination of menus
and icons. The symbols are grouped within the ribbon depending on the monitor’s
resolution and the size of the window. Since additional commands can be added to the
ribbons it is rarely necessary to use dialog boxes. There is also the possibility to
minimize the ribbons. This is done by right clicking on the ribbon and clicking on
„Minimize the ribbon“.

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