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Custom menu

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Types of menu items

custom menu
sample custom menu
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:

  1. open a SurView file:

  2. 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.

  3. 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.


Options

custom menu options
options on custom menu

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:

  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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