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8 User interface

8.1 Menus

The menus try to remain as simple as possible. The basic model is a list of items which can be selected and clicked.

You can use either the keyboard:

Or you can use the mouse:

In some cases, menus are not enough to achieve some operations, but there are fallbacks:

8.2 Hot keys

8.3 Console

When running Liquid War 6 from a terminal, you will see a shell prompt:

lw6>

You can type Guile (scheme) code here, this shells gives you a direct access to all the internals of the game.

It's safe to type random strings in it (errors are catched), but typing meaningfull commands might do what you want as well as crash the game. Think of it as a swiss army knife you can use when the usual user interface and the menus are not enough, not as an every day tool designed for the non-geek audience.