Startup tips!

[Pneumarian]

Continuing the discussion from Crafting the First Mile:

@Pneumarian

3. Startup tips! A dialog of startup tips, that can be paged through in either direction, may be somewhat tired these days, but can be a nice way to give new users a moment’s enlightenment before they proceed. “Be sure to check the lower left window frame when using a tool for hints on how to proceed to use it,” or “Hold SHIFT to force a new point to be created at one of the eight main compass angles in relation to the originating point,” (That one needs a good editor,) might make a good first two tips. Some sort of warning/assurance about the easily accessible node-editing dialog should also be right up there at the top, probably before the Shift note.

So, in order to have a startup tips it is necessary to have tips that one might like to be told at startup, I have started this thread to list & discuss what tips seem to be key to know when just starting out in Seamly. I will attempt to keep this post updated with tips for a while so that until the devs implement startup tips people, (devs, noobs, feral users, curious geeks…,) won’t have to sift through discussion to find the tips.

I’ll start by adding:

@Pneumarian posted

A list of Seamly tutorials may be found on the wiki