Viewing and Zooming Sketches
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The files types
The MainBox represents the entire survey and handles loading and saving. Its Left Hand Panel shows the tree of surveys and subsurveys, while the Right Hand Panel shows a list of the files that are available associated to this particular survey.
The text file types are:
- SVX
- The Survex-compatible cave measurements
- LEGS
- The list of survey legs in XML format extracted from the survey data
- EXPORT
- The list of connections from this survey other surveys above and on the same level.
- POS
- The positions of the survey stations calculated by Survex (optional).
- SKETCH
- A drawing from the current survey.
If the name of the file is green it has been loaded, if it is red it has been changed but not saved, and if the filename has a white background then it has not yet been loaded by Tunnel. Loading will happen automatically when you open it.
You can double-click on any file to open it or, if it is a sketch, select it and use Tunnel | View Sketch from the menubar.
Introducing the Sketch Window
Almost everything in Tunnel happens in the Sketch Window. There is a Control Pane on the left with various tabbed sections ("subsets", "background", "info"), and a Sketch Area on the right.
If you load the example cave inlet7 and select the subsurvey inlet7-2 in the Left Hand Pane, and double-clicked on inlet7-2-sketch0.xml (the only sketch there), this is what you would see:
Note: If you accidentally click the Left Mouse Button on the Sketch Area so it starts dragging a pink drawing line around, you can get rid of it by clicking on the Delete button in the Control Pane or -- equivalently -- on Action | Delete from the menu.
Moving around the sketch
The simplest way to move around the sketch is to use the commands under the View menu. Options you can use are Left, Right, Up, Down, Scale Up, and Scale Down, and Max.
The quickest way to move around the sketch is to use the Middle Mouse Button (You cannot do this if you do not have a three-button mouse). You need to hold either the Shift or Control key down when you click the mouse button to control what it does.
Translating the view
Hold the Shift key down, and then click down and drag with Middle Mouse Button in the Sketch Area to shift the view. For performance irrespective of how complicated your survey is, the dragging is of the image; the sketch is only redrawn once you release the button.
Zooming the view
Hold the Control key down, and then click down and drag with Middle Mouse Button in the Sketch Area to zoom in and out. Notice that zooming is centred at the point where you clicked, not on the centre of the screen.
You can perform the same as a translation by zooming in on one point, and zooming out on another.
Rotating the view
If you click down and dragging the Middle Mouse Button without holding any keys down, nothing happens because this action is disabled. You can enable it by ticking Motion | Enable Rotate from the menubar which will mean you can spin the image. To reset the rotation use View | Upright.
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