Rotated View and Rotated Printing Functionality in GTViewer

The latest update to GTViewer (verison 10.0.0.11) has a significant new feature: you can now rotate the view to any orientation. This new functionality has been added to meet the requests of several customers who wanted support for 1) rotated prints and 2) Orienting the map to the heading of the GPS. Two screencast videos are listed below to demonstrate this new functionality in action:

Rotated View and Rotated Printing

http://gti-us.mobi/video/rotatedviewdemo/rotatedviewdemo.html

GPS Orienting to Heading:

http://gti-us.mobi/video/gpsdemo/rotatedviewgpsdemo.html

Rotated Views and Rotated Printing do come with a higher demand for memory and processing power, and this functionality may not run on older machines with minimal resources. There are also some features disabled when the view is rotated, like drawing redlines and extract file creation; however, these features may support rotated views at a later date. Also, if you do not rotate the view, GTViewer works as it always has.

To prevent widespread panic, the View Rotation functionality is disabled by default. To enable it, you simply need to add the following line:

AllowViewRotation=1

to the [Additional Properties] section of the .GTM file or to an AddProp.ini file if using a .GTX file.

With version 11.0.0.4, you can also press the key combination Ctrl-Alt-R and enable or disable the View Rotation. However, this command does not permanently enable the view rotation for the dataset as the AllowViewRotation entry does.

The view rotation controls are simple:

• Alt-Left - rotates the view to the left by 5 degrees
• Alt-Right - rotates the view to the right by 5 degrees
  
  
• Shift-Alt-Left - rotates the view to the left by 1 degree
• Shift-Alt-Right - rotates the view to the right by 1 degree
  
  
• Shift-Up or Esc - exit the rotated view mode

When the view is rotated, an indicator appears at the top right corner of the view and points to the normal top of the map. The amount of rotation is also specified on the status bar along with the XY coordinates and Zoom level.

Rotated View



Normal View


The rotated view and rotated printing capabilities have also been added to the latest version of GTVx (version 10.0.0.9).

GTViewer 10.0.0.11 is Available

GTViewer version 10.0.0.10 is available.

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10.00.00.11 - 05/13/11
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- NEW - #6749 - AllowViewRotation entry added to both the DataProperties and to the Additional Properties section of the .GTM. Default is to not allow (0), can also be set to allow (1).

- FIX - #6750 - Better Error Handling for Rotated Views and Rotated Printing.

- NEW - #6751 - RestrictStyleManagerExport Data Property Added and Additional Properties section of the .GTM.

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10.00.00.10 - 05/06/11
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- NEW - #6690 - ExportFontAsBitmaps method has been added.

- CHG - #6694 - Dynamic Graphics Shape Actions will now get centroid from any shape, not just closed elements.

- CHG - #6695 - Dynamic Graphics will now adjust the Clipping Rectangle to the Extract range when using a .GTX file.

- FIX - #6698 - Bogus error message logged when Data Id is 0 and only embedded is present for Feature Tooltips.

- FIX - #6701 - GetDataProperty was returning incorrect values for MouseWheelIncrement.

- NEW - #6702 - Support for Editing Session Links.

- CHG - #6703 - Session Links with no file name will now carry the session link name to support editing session links.

- CHG - #6706 - Session Links show up as [Session Link] instead of ~link~ in Right Mouse menu.

- FIX - #6709 - Dimension Elements dialog now sorts the fonts alphabetically.

- NEW - #6712 - HighlightAddText method added.

- NEW - #6713 - HighlightAddFilledCircle method added.

- NEW - #6715 - Rotated View, Print, and Print to Scale functionality added.

- NEW - #6717 - Keep Rotation option added for Point Labels in Dynamic Graphics.

- NEW - #6718 - Option to keep or omit Dynamic Graphics labels that are partially out of the view. The previous method was to omit them.

- FIX - #6726 - Dimension Element Dialog was showing the wrong options for Left/Top and Right/Bottom.

- FIX - #6727 - Dimension Element Dialog was sorting the Terminator Option list alphabetically causing the associated values to not match the named item.

- FIX - #6728 - Drawing a redline could take on the last used Style Definition in certain situations until a view refresh.

- FIX - #6730 - Dimension Dialog will now remember the last Terminator setting.

- FIX - #6732 - The current Weight was not being set in the Dimension Dialog.

- FIX - #6733 - The Color in the Draw Dimension Dialog was not set to the Current Color value or the selected elements current color.

- FIX - #6735 - Dimension Dialog had the Size value 30 twice instead of 30 and 35.

- FIX - #6738 - Dimension Dialog would not select the right font from the list.

- FIX - #6739 - Dimension Dialog did not set the correct Terminator style when editing the properties of a dimension element.

- FIX - #6742 - Dimension Elements using TrueType Fonts did not position the text correctly for Left/Top and Right/Bottom modes.

- NEW - #6744 - SaveViewAsBmp method added.

GTVx version 10.0.0.9 is Available

Version 10.0.0.9 of GTVx is available.

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10.00.00.09 - 05/13/11
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- NEW - #6746 - AllowViewRotation entry added to both the DataProperties and to the Additional Properties section of the .GTM. Default is to not allow (0), can also be set to allow (1).

- FIX - #6747 - Better Error Handling for Rotated Views and Rotated Printing.

- NEW - #6748 - RestrictStyleManagerExport Data Property Added and Additional Properties section of the .GTM.

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10.00.00.08 - 05/08/11
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- FIX - #6689 - Fixes to the TrueType Font bitmap render so that the Symbol Selection dialog and the ExportFontAsBitmaps will represent the TrueType characters better.

- CHG - #6691 - ExportFontAsBitmaps will now uses a 3 digit character for using preceeded zeros for number less than 100.

- CHG - #6692 - Dynamic Graphics Shape Actions will now get centroid from any shape, not just closed elements.

- CHG - #6693 - Dynamic Graphics will now adjust the Clipping Rectangle to the Extract range when using a .GTX file.

- FIX - #6699 - Bogus error message logged when Data Id is 0 and only embedded is present for Feature Tooltips.

- FIX - #6700 - GetDataProperty was returning incorrect values for MouseWheelIncrement.

- CHG - #6704 - GetColorTableInfo has been changed to return the background color as the first item in the color array.

- FIX - #6705 - The CurrentColor was not being correctly used when the Select Symbol dialog was used and had the symbol color set to -1 (the default).

- FIX - #6707 - The Dimension Element dialog was not listing TrueType fonts.

- FIX - #6708 - Dimension Elements dialog now sorts the fonts alphabetically.

- NEW - #6710 - HighlightAddText method added.

- NEW - #6711 - HighlightAddFilledCircle method added.

- NEW - #6716 - Print using View Center command added to Print to Scale dialog.

- NEW - #6719 - Keep Rotation option added for Point Labels in Dynamic Graphics.

- NEW - #6720 - Option to keep or omit Dynamic Graphics labels that are partially out of the view. The previous method was to omit them.

- FIX - #6722 - The Color in the Draw Dimension Dialog was not set to the Current Color value or the selected elements current color.

- FIX - #6723 - Dimension Element Dialog was showing the wrong options for Left/Top and Right/Bottom.

- FIX - #6724 - Dimension Element Dialog was sorting the Terminator Option list alphabetically causing the associated values to not match the named item.

- FIX - #6725 - Drawing a redline could take on the last used Style Definition in certain situations until a view refresh.

- FIX - #6729 - Dimension Dialog will now remember the last Terminator setting.

- FIX - #6731 - The current Weight was not being set in the Dimension Dialog.

- FIX - #6734 - Dimension Dialog had the Size value 30 twice instead of 30 and 35.

- FIX - #6736 - Dimension Dialog would not select the right font from the list.

- FIX - #6737 - Dimension Dialog did not set the correct Terminator style when editing the properties of a dimension element.

- FIX - #6740 - Draw Text Dialog was not using the current weight.

- FIX - #6741 - Dimension Elements using TrueType Fonts did not position the text correctly for Left/Top and Right/Bottom modes.

- NEW - #6743 - Rotated View, Print, and Print to Scale functionality added.

- NEW - #6745 - SaveViewAsBmp method added.