You are here:

Scale

Represents a scale bar for a map. This shows the actual scale of the map, i.e. after changes of the map scale (e.g. after a zoom within the marked map or after setting a clip map) the display is adjusted.

Note: When displaying the workbook in the EasyMap Xplorer: Due to the coordinate system used for the display in the browser, the displayed scale can deviate greatly from the actual scale.

Properties

Setting options in detail:

Common

Caption and Editability
Caption	Specify a name here to be able to find the element more quickly in the Contents control window. For analyses, maps or sheets, you should use a name that contains the topic. EasyMap assigns generic names for new elements (e.g. map 1). If you do not change these, you will later have great difficulty in finding certain content in workbookn.
Visibility
General	Here you can control the visibility of objects and elements.
Alternating visibility group	Set a group for mutual visibility here. If the element is to be made equally visible with other elements, you must use the same name for the visibility group.
Simultaneous visibility group	Set a group for simultaneous visibility here. If the element is to be made mutually visible with other elements, you must use the same name for the visibility group.
Reference
Map	Map to which this Km scale belongs. Each map object can have a different scale. Therefore each km scale always belongs to a certain map object and shows its scale.
Location
Anchor point	Select the point from which the size of the element is to be calculated.
Offset Left	In conjunction with the reference point, the distance in cm from the left.
Offset from Top	In conjunction with the reference point, the distance in cm from the top.
Size
Width	Width of the object in cm.
Height	Height of the object in cm.

Settings

Scale bar
Type	There are four different basic types of scale bar to choose from: Bar, double bar, top line division, center line division.
Height	Height of the scale bar in cm.
Color	Sets the color of the scale bar. The second colour is always white for beams and double beams.
Scale
Unit	Defines the unit of measurement used by this scale (kilometers or meters).
Width	Enter the total width of the scale bar to be displayed here. The number is automatically adjusted if necessary, taking into account the sector width and number of sectors.
Sector Width	Enter the sector width. The number is automatically adjusted taking into account the total width and number of sectors, if necessary.
Number of Sectors	Enter the number of sectors. The number is automatically adjusted taking into account the total width and the sector width.
Sector label
Visible	Controls the visibility of the sector labels. Do not display: No sector label is displayed. Label all sectors: The label of each individual sector is displayed. Label first and last sector: Only the first and last sector of the scale bar is labelled.
Font	Sets the font type of the sector label.
Font Color	Specifies the color of the sector label. You can specify the color using the color selection field or directly as HTML color value.
Show unit	Determines whether the unit of the sector label is displayed ("km" or "m").
Header
Content	Width of scale bar: The width represented by the scale bar is written over it, e.g. "50km". Scale : The current scale is written over the scale bar, e.g. "1:2.000.000". (None): No heading is displayed.
Font	Defines the font of the heading.
Font Color	Specifies the font color of the heading. You can specify the color using the color selection field or directly as an HTML color value.
Border
Color	Specifies the color in which the frame around an object is to be drawn. You can specify the color using the color selection field or directly as HTML color value. If no color is specified, no frame is displayed.
Width	If a frame is displayed around the object, the width of this frame can be set here.
Shadow Color	Specifies the color in which a shadow representation of the object is to be drawn. You can specify the color using the color selection field or directly as HTML color value. If no color is specified, no shadow is displayed.
Shadow Spacing	If a shadow is displayed to the object, the distance or width of this shadow can be set here.
Background
Fill	Define the background of your element here. You can specify the color or the fill effect using the Color Selection Box or directly as HTML color value.

commands

You can right-click on an object in the control window Contents or on a selected object in the map window to open its context menu. This offers some actions that can be performed on this object.

List of commands in the context menu

Select other Object	If you do not want to select the uppermost object at the mouse position, but an object below it, you can select this using the selection list. Besides locking the selection level, this is the only way to select objects that are hidden by other objects.
Transfer Selection to	Transfers the current selection geographically to another object. Details...
Visible	Shows whether the object is visible and allows switching the visibility.
Order	Here you can change the selected element in the character sequence. Another option is to drag and drop the selected element within the content view.
Align	Aligns several objects flush or aligns an object within its parent object. Details...
Copy	Copy the object (if necessary with all subobjects) to the clipboard to paste it elsewhere. The object can be inserted in other applications as a graphic, or inserted in EasyMap as a copy of this object using the Insert command.
Paste	Pastes the contents of the clipboard into this object as a child object.
Delete	Deletes the selected element. (See also: delete objects)
Rename	Changes the content view to an edit mode to give the object a new name. (This can also be achieved by clicking on an object that has already been marked.)
Properties	Opens a properties dialog in which you can edit the Properties of the selected object. If several objects are selected, many properties can also be changed simultaneously for these objects.