Models of created objects (Map Legend)

The models of created objects (Map Legend) are expedient for using at creation (vectoring) digital map, previously having filled in theirs by images of most usable map objects.

Map legend looks like rows of pictograms till 12 icons in each  (all up to 10 lines) with map symbols associated with map objects.

Every row of map symbols has unique name for convenience of object searching.

Once map legend is created you don't need to open complicated Classifier dialog to   search   and select map object. Just click on corresponding pictogram in map legend row.

Information on the object and also its mode creation (arbitrary contour, rectangle, circle etc.)  are stored in a legend element.

To show map legend click on corresponding icon of Map editor panel.

When map legend is opened for the first time (choice of the corresponding icon of Map editor panel) you will see a toolbar consisting of empty (unfilled) pictograms (instead of map symbols on icons the tags Х). For filling of an empty pictogram it is enough to click the corresponding push button of the panel. After you select needful map symbol from the library of conventional symbols its image will appear on the corresponding push button, the push button remain pressed and the process of object creation will be actuated. The information on a filled pictogram can be received at putting the mouse pointer (cursor) on the interesting for you push button. To create necessary to you object it is possible after filling of an empty pictogram, after selection of a filled pictogram or after selection of the corresponding mode of Map editor panel. Besides you can exchange the filled pictogram image of created object without interrupting of started by you map object creation or editing.  For this purpose it is necessary to click a right mouse button at the moment, when the mouse pointer is above the selected by you button.  At the first activating of the map legend toolbar (on the concrete map) the file with a name of a current map and .EDT- expansion  forms in the directory, where the data are stored, (in a subdirectory LOG). Primarily file contains only one row of icons No name from 12 members. The file editing is made after selection of the Property item menu, which one will be actuated at right button click above any toolbar icon or clicking of the auxiliary  (the last) toolbar   icon.