Using the Graphic Editor’s Menu

On the left side of the graphic editor is a menu showing the options available for that shape.  

Using a rectangle as an example, the menu would initially appear as shown below:

Indicator dots:

All the dots are initially grey.  This indicates that none of the properties have been changed from their default values.  For each property you modify, the related dot will change to green.

In the example below, a fill color has been set.  Note the green dot beside Fill as well as beside the word Ellipse. These indicate properties that have had values set.

Expanding Menus:

Some menu items expand to display more options.  In the next image, both Scaling and Movement have been expanded.  If one item within an expanding menu is set, both its dot and the dot at the top of that topic will also change color, as shown below for Scaling.

The panel display will also change, depending on whether you select the root of an expanding menu, or one of the branches within it.  When the root of the expanding menu is selected, all of the sub-menu items will be displayed in the panel.   When only one branch item is selected then the parameters for only that property will be displayed in the panel.  The following two images illustrate the difference:

Changes to multiple properties

Selecting the name of the object (top of the menu, left panel) will cause the panel on the right of the dialog to display all of the properties whose values have been set.  For example, if both the fill and the top scaling of a rectangle have been set, selecting the word “Rectangle” at the top of the menu would result in a dialog similar to the following: