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1. MapGuide
Commands
2. Toolbar Buttons
3. PopUp Menu Summary
4. Steps to Create,
Save and Print Maps
1. MapGuide Commands
The MapGuide viewer uses either toolbar buttons or the popup menu. The toolbar
buttons are the buttons across the top of the window:

For a description of each of the buttons on the toolbar, click
on the toolbar button or see the Toolbar
Button summary below.
The map window popup menu is a menu that appears when you click the right-hand
button on your mouse (referred to as "right-clicking") anywhere in the map
window. After you right-click to display the popup menu, you can click on one of the
items in the menu to choose that command. Those commands that have a right arrow next to
them (such as Copy) display a secondary popup menu when you click on them:

See 3.
PopUp Menu Summary

2.Toolbar Buttons
Click on the Command for more
details. When the buttons are selected they stick; you can use the
ESC key to get back to the Select button.

3. PopUp Menu Summary
The following table describes the commands that might appear in the map window
PopUp Menu when you right-click in the map window.
| Command |
Sub-Menu |
Description |
| Pan |
|
Move the map around to display areas that are outside of the current view |
| Reload |
|
Reload the current map at the current
zoom scale. |
| Print |
Page
Setup |
Display the Page Setup dialog box, where
you can specify settings for printing the map. |
| Print |
Print the map. |
| Copy |
Copy |
Copy the current map view to the
clipboard. |
| Copy
as Bookmark or URL |
Copy the current map location to the
clipboard as a URL. |
| Zoom |
Zoom |
Zoom in by a magnification factor of two on the point that you click, or zoom in to the rectangular area you draw with the mouse |
| Zoom
Goto |
Display the Zoom Goto dialog box, where
you specify the location to zoom to. The types of locations you can specify in this dialog
box vary depending on the way the map was authored. Use % as a wildcard. |
| Zoom
Width |
Display the Zoom Width dialog box, where
you specify the width, in current units, of the area that you want to display in the map
window. |
| Zoom
Scale |
Display the Zoom Scale dialog box, where
you specify the scale at which you want to view the map. |
| Zoom
Selected |
Zoom to display all of the selected
objects. |
| Zoom
Previous |
Zoom to the area that was last displayed. |
| Zoom
Out |
Zoom out by a magnification factor of two from the point you click to display a larger area of the map |
| UnZoom |
Zoom out to display the entire map |
| Bookmarks |
Add
Bookmarks |
Display the Add Bookmark dialog box,
where you specify a bookmark name under which you want to save the current view. |
| Delete
Bookmarks |
Display the Delete Bookmark dialog box,
where you can choose a bookmark to delete. |
| (Bookmark
Name) |
Adjust the map view to display the area
that was saved under this bookmark name. |
| Select |
Select
Map Objects |
Display the Select Map Objects dialog
box, where you select from a list of the map objects that are within the current map view.
|
| Select
Radius |
Select the map features that fall within a circle with the radius you specify from a specific point |
| Select
Polygon |
Select the map objects that fall within a
polygon you draw. |
| Select
Within |
Select the map objects that fall within
the specified map objects. |
| Select Clear |
Clear the currently selected map objects.
You can also press ESC to clear the selection. |
| View |
View
Buffer |
Create buffers around the selected map
objects to view the objects that fall within a certain distance from the selected
objects . |
| View
Distance |
Display the distance between two points, as
well as the cumulative distance of all measurements made. |
| View
Reports |
Generate reports associated with the selected
map objects. |
| Help |
Help About |
Display information about your version of
the Autodesk MapGuide Viewer. |
| Help Contents |
Display the Autodesk MapGuide Help or the Help created by the author of the map. If you do not have the Help installed on your computer, it will be opened from the
Autodesk MapGuide Web site. |
| Preferences |
Display the preferences dialog box, where
you can specify the map units, selection mode, and status bar settings. |
| Stop |
|
Stop or interrupt the map display from updating and dynamic map layers from downloading. This command is available in the Map Window popup menu if you right-click in the map while the map is loading |
| Continue |
|
Continue updating the map display and downloading dynamic map layers. This command is available in the Map Window popup menu if you right-click in the map while the map is loading |
Following are
the commands that appear in the legend popup menu when you right-click in the legend: |
| Command |
|
Description |
| Rebuild |
Rebuild the selected
layer or all the layers in a layer group. |
| Expand
(layer) |
If a map layer listed in the legend does
not show all of the types of objects in that layer, this command expands the list. |
| Expand
(layer group) |
Display the list of layers in the layer group |
| Collapse
(layer) |
If a map layer listed in the legend shows
all of the types of objects in the map layer, this command collapses the list to just the
name of the layer. |
| Collapse
(layer group) |
Collapse the list of layers in the layer group, displaying only the layer group name. |
| |
You can also double
click the layer or group label to expand and collapse the layer or
group. |
| Turn On All Layers |
Available only for layer
groups; turn on all the layers in a layer group |
| Turn
Off All Layers |
Available only for layer
groups; turn off |

4. Steps to Create,
Save and Print Maps
4.1 Select a Map
Area for Viewing
4.2 Copying and Pasting a Map
4.3 To Save a Map
4.4 To Print a Map
4.1 Select a Map Area for
Viewing
Zoom using
or
into the area you would like to see. This
will decrease download time when the theme or themes you want to see are retrieved from
their data bases. If you need to ZOOM OUT
, turn off the unnecessary layers, so download time will be
decreased. Remember: the more you Zoom in, the more themes you will be able to
choose from. Watch the legend on the lefthand side to see which areas can be viewed
at any given scale. Use the Pan
to
move the map around and get the area you want to view, save or print.
4.2 Copying and Pasting Maps
When you copy the map view, it is copied to the Windows clipboard, and you can
paste it into another Windows application. Remember to use
button and not the Edit, Copy function from the browser toolbar.
To copy and paste the map view, do the
following:
1.Use the ZOOM and PAN commands to display the
map area you are interested in.
2.Right-click, and then choose COPY > COPY or
.
3.Switch to the application in which you want to paste the map view.
4.Choose EDIT > PASTE.
4.3 To Save a Map
You can save documents by using the Save As command on the File
menu. Name the map and click OK. The map is saved as a html
file and can be viewed with your browser by double clicking on the file or opening the
file from your browser.
4.4 To Print a Map
Right-click on the map to get the Popup Menu and select Print.
You can use the Page Setup dialog box to specify settings for printing the
map. You can also print the whole screen to you clipboard by using your Print
Screen button
on your keyboard.
Note: Do not use the File, Print
menu or
button on your browser
toolbar. You will get a web page with no map.
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