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Status Bar Configuration Options

The Status Bar is located at the bottom of the screen (see Status Bar for how to display the Status Bar).

Right-click anywhere in the Status Bar to display the Status Bar Configuration dialog:

A number of items can be selected in this dialog for display in the Status Bar as follows:

See the following sections of this topic for individual descriptions:

Link to Cadcorp website

Selection Details

Messages

Position

View width

Scale

Zoom Slider

Example Status Bar

The following is an example of a Status Bar configuration with all options checked:

Note: The position of the items in Status Bar will depend upon other selections made in the Status Bar Configuration.

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Link to Cadcorp website

The first item in the Status Bar is a link to the Cadcorp web site;www.cadcorp.com.

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Selection Details

The Selection Details option turns on the selection details display in the status bar:

The Item class of the selected item(s) is shown.

If there is more than one class of item in the selection the total number of selected items will be displayed in the form; Selected: n (Polygon). The item name in brackets will change according to the item(s) selected, i.e. LineString, Point, Text, etc. If a mixture of items are selected only the total number of items will be shown in the form; Selected: n.

Typical display examples:

Selected: 1 (Polygon)

Selected: 1 (TIN)

Selected: 5

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Messages

The messages are helpful text related to the operation being carried out at the time, a description of a menu command, or a prompt for the action required by the current command. The following are examples of the messages that may be displayed:

Typical message examples:

Select handle or item, use Ctrl to insert vertex

First corner of rectangle, use Enter for size

Use Enter to edit text, or Tab to justify texts

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Position

The Position option turns on the position display in the status bar:

The Position box, showing 232950m,599169m,0m in the above display, gives the current cursor position in one of two ways:

with the Track tickbox checked the Position box is continuously updated as you move the cursor over the current Map Window.
with Track unchecked the Position box is updated only when the cursor is clicked on the map, providing the means to query any position in any coordinate system.

If you type a number on the keyboard while the focus is in aMap Window, then the focus is moved into the Position box. Here you can type a coordinate in the chosen format.

The next item is the Track tickbox, this is used to control the action of the coordinates displayed in the current cursor position box, (see above description for the fourth item in the Position Bar).

the coordinates button drop-down list allows you to choose the format of positions for displaying and entering coordinates from the availableCoordinate Grids.

The available formats are as follows:

Coordinates - displays positions as 3-dimensional coordinates, either:
- as X,Y,Z distances from the origin if the coordinate system is Cartesian (e.g. National Grid)
- in latitude, longitude and height if the coordinate system is spherical (e.g. Latitude/Longitude). Positions rotate if you rotate the axes.

When used with a grid, TIN or DTM, the Z height gives the value of the cell of the grid, or the height at that point on a TIN or DTM.

e.g. 241km,596km,15km

Grid Item (e.g. DTM or DEM) - displays cell values of cursor position for grid items,

e.g. DTMs, DEMs or grids.

Irish Grid - displays positions as grid references using the Irish National Grid system,

e.g. IN 5067 6432

The precision used reflects the units set. So if you were using metres with no decimal places, the read-out might be IN 43765 62893. If you are using metres accurate to 3 decimal places, the read-out would reflect this accuracy e.g. IN 43765801 62893277.

Japanese Digital Map - used for inputting coordinates in Japanese Digital Map format.
Japanese General Area Mesh - used for inputting coordinates in Japanese General Area Mesh format.
Latitude/Longitude - reports positions in latitude and longitude, plus a geoidal height, using the current coordinate system datum,

e.g. 51.569°,-3.760°,0km

Linear coordinates - used for inputting coordinates only. Not used for displaying coordinates of a position.

OS (GB) National Grid - displays positions as grid references using the Great Britain National Grid system.

The precision used reflects the units set - see Irish Grid above.

Polar coordinates - displays the current cursor location using a polar coordinate system. The present position is given as a bearing (using the Angle units set on the Units tab of the Coordinate Reference Systems dialog:
plus a distance and height (using the Linear set units). Positions are shown relative to a point selected using thePolar coordinatescommand.

e.g. 135°, 371m, 0m

Relative polar coordinates - gives polar coordinates (a bearing and distance, plus optional height) relative to the last snapped position.

e.g. 172°,19m,0km

Survey coordinates- coordinates from a customised survey.

WGS84 Latitude,Longitude,Height - displays positions as latitude and longitude coordinates, plus their geoidal height.

e.g. -4°,-52°,48.3m (meaning 4°S, 52°W, 48.3m)
The Coordinate Reference Systems button gives a drop-down list to allow you to choose the requiredCoordinate Reference System.

The drop-down also shows the Projection and the EPSG Code.

The next item displayed, 768.9m in the above display, is the width of the current view.
The last item in the Status Bar, Scale 1:1250 in the above display, shows the current scale. The drop-down list from this box gives a range of scales that may be selected, or the scale can be typed in.

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View width

The View width option turns on the view width display in the status bar:

Note: View width is non-editable and is always shown in km.

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Scale

The Scale option turns on the Scale 1:nnn display in the status bar:

You can change the scale by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the scale value and selecting the required scale.

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Zoom slider

The Zoom slider option turns on the Zoom slider in the status bar:

You can zoom in and out of a view by either sliding the Zoom Slider bar or clicking on the +/- buttons at each end of the slider to increase or decrease the view in the Map Window between a scale of 1:1 and 1:200000000.

By default the steps correspond to the scales in the Status Bar Scale control (plus one step at either end). If an Overlay has a fixed set of resolutions, then the zoom slider steps will correspond to those resolutions (plus one step at either end).

The Zoom Slider is also used in a similar manner to zoom the view in the 3D Window. The scale is not displayed in the status bar when zooming in the 3D Window.