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SurView Tutorial
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If SurView has been configured with a custom menu, the menu items will
appear to the right of the Help dropdown menu (or below the main menu).
The data preparer may have configured these menu items to perform a variety of actions:
- open a SurView file:
- using the current launch mode (see Options)
- in the current copy of SurView, adding the file to the current File Display List
- in the current copy of SurView, clearing the File Display List first
- in a new copy of SurView
- open a non-SurView file
These can be any file types, i.e. .txt, .doc. .htm, .hlp. SurView
relies on Windows to launch the application currently associated
with the file type.
- run a generic command-line
This can be any command:
dir c:\
or the name of an executable file complete with arguments:
\apps\someapp.exe -f \data\shp\somefile.shp
The menu item may or may not show the filename or command-line
associated with the menu item, depending on the current state of the
display option.
Each dropdown menu item has an Options submenu at the
top (unless it has been completely suppressed by the data preparer).
This submenu contains several options, any of which may have been
disabled by the data preparer:
- show filenames in menu items
This allows you to toggle the display setting that governs
whether or not the filename or command-line is shown for each
menu item (along with the menu item that describes it).
- file open options
These apply only to SurView files. Keep in mind that a single FDL
file may contain a list of several other files.
- add each file to current File Display List
The file(s) will be added to the current File Display List (at the top of the list)
- clear File Display List for each file
The File Display List will be cleared first, then the file(s) will be added
- launch new copy of SurView to view file
A new copy of SurView will be launched to view the file(s). If it's an
FDL file, a single copy is launched to view the set of files.
- Clear File Display List now
This is exactly equivalent to bringing up the File Display
list dialog box with File | File Display List
and clicking the Clear list button.
- Change display order of selected files...
This is exactly equivalent to bringing up the File Display
List dialog box (i.e. via File | File Display List or
Edit | Map layers (order, visibility)...
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