Moving the chart

You can move a chart in its window in several ways.

Hand tool

Click the Hand tool tes00156.gif in the Tools palette to select it, then move the cursor over the chart and position it in the center.

Click and drag while holding the mouse button down. The chart moves as you move the mouse.

Note: when you release the mouse button, the software redraws the part of the chart following the move that you have made. This may take several moments during which the watch icon is displayed.

Note: do not attempt to move a chart several times in quick succession. Wait until the software has redrawn the chart after each new move.

Scrolling bars

You can use the horizontal and vertical scrolling bars, as in any Windows document, to move the chart in the active window.

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To do this, click one of the scrolling arrows and keep the mouse button held down. Try moving the displayed chart in all four directions (to the left, to the right, upwards and downwards).

You can also click in the shaded part of the scrolling bars to scroll page by page (actually by a half-width or half-length of the screen). Do not hold the mouse button down since the software requires several moments to redraw the chart, and you may quickly move far away from the desired location.

Arrow keys of the keyboard

Another way to move the chart on the screen is to use the arrow keys on the keyboard. To move the chart, just press the arrow that points in the direction that you want to see. If you want to see more of the chart to the right, press the right arrow key.

Centered ship

This function puts the chart in centered ship mode (or Center mode). If the chart was not previously centered on the ship, it is redrawn.

In Center mode, the chart will automatically be moved when the ship moves out of the centering zone of the screen presently defined. This zone is, by default, located in the middle of the screen and has a width and height equal to half of the size of the screen.

Modification of the centering zone (dimension and position) is explained in the chapter High level functions .

You can activate and deactivate this mode using the Center button located in the lower left-hand corner of each chart window.

Click this button to activate Center mode:

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Click this button again to deactivate Center mode:

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Note: Center mode is associated with a chart window. Therefore, you can activate this mode on one of the windows, but not on the others.

Note: when using chart by chart mode, the Center mode only operates in the area of the opened chart. You must manually open another chart when the ship is moving outside of the displayed chart.

Center around

You are able to define centering points which permit you to directly center the chart on the recorded points.

This function is quite useful to very quickly move the chart from one area to another.

To enter centering points, refer to Creating centering points paragraph of High level functions chapter.

To center the chart, select Center around· from the Display menu..