The GeoGebra 4.2 Sneak Peek Series

GeoGebra 4.2 is expected to be released within the year. Before its release, let us take a peek at the new features and the changes in GeoGebra.

  1. Sneak Peek 1:  The GeoGebra Window
  2. Sneak Peek 2: The Object Properties
  3. Sneak Peek 3: Graphics and Layout
  4. Sneak Peek 4: Defaults and Advanced Sections
  5. Sneak Peek 5: Ten New Improvements

This series has just started and will be updated from time to time.

GeoGebra 4.2 Sneak Peek 2: The Object Properties

Introduction

This is the second part of the GeoGebra 4.2 Sneak Peek Series. In this post, we discuss the changes made in the Object Properties window and the significant changes on the properties of the commonly used tools in GeoGebra.

GeoGebra 4.2 Preferences

The Object Properties

The Object Properties in version 4.2 is included in the References dialog box as shown in the figure above.  The Object Properties contains  properties of mathematical objects divided into tabs: Color, Style, Advanced and Scripting tabs common to most  objects. It also contains special tabs for such as Algebra for points and Decoration for angles and segments. » Read more

GeoGebra Offline Installers, GeoGebra 4.2 Beta, and GeoGebra 5.0 Beta

To those who are using computers which are not connected to the internet,  you can now download the GeoGebra 4.0 offline installers and install it in your PCs or Macs.

The development GeoGebra 4.2 and GeoGebra 5.0  has also been started. In GeoGebra 4.2 the computer algebra system will be improved, while 3d is the major addition to GeoGebra 5.0.

A screenshot from GeoGebra 5.0 Beta

GeoGebra 4.2 (JNLP file),can be downloaded  here and read its  release notes can be viewed here.

GeoGebra 5.0 (JNLP file), can be downloaded here. If you have trouble running GeoGebra 5.0, be sure that 3d is running on your computer.

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