</figure>
</section>
+<section id="toolbar" xreflabel="Toolbar"><title>Toolbar</title>
+<para>The toolbar is an area for buttons that perform common actions.</para>
+<para>Some actions are modal, so the appropriate layer needs selected before these toolbar buttons are enabled. See <xref linkend="tools"/> more detail.</para>
+<para>The display of the toolbar is influenced by the <xref linkend="prefs_toolbar"/></para>
+<para>Right clicking on the toolbar and selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Customize</guimenu></menuchoice> allows jumping to the <xref linkend="prefs_toolbar_customize"/> directly.</para>
+</section>
+
<section id="projection" xreflabel="Projection"><title>Projections</title>
<para>
&appname; supports differents projections:
&appname; has several shortcut keys or key combinations for commands as listed in the main window along side the command.
</para>
<para>
-Some function keys follow standard GUI behaviour:
+By default some function keys follow standard GUI behaviour:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><keycap>F1</keycap> Help (view this manual)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><keycap>Ctrl+Left</keycap> Pan the viewport West</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><keycap>Ctrl+Keypad+</keycap> Zoom In</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><keycap>Ctrl+Keypad-</keycap> Zoom Out</para></listitem>
-<listitem><note><para>These work irrespective of the <xref linkend="tools"/> mode selected</para></note></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+<important><para>These work irrespective of the <xref linkend="tools"/> mode selected</para></important>
For other combinations see the menu entry themselves.
</para>
</section>
+<section>
+<title>Keyboard Configuration</title>
+<para>Keyboard configuration is supported by the standard GTK+ way of changing shortcuts for menu entries.</para>
+<para>Hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to bind it to.</para>
+<para>To delete a keyboard assignment, press <keycap>Backspace</keycap> whilst over the menu entry.</para>
+<note>
+<para>
+ If the keyboard shortcut is already in use you will not receive any notification that new action replaces the old action.
+ This is probably why most distributions have this facility disabled by default.
+ Thus you will need to enable <emphasis>Editable menu accelerators</emphasis> for your system.
+ Check the Desktop Menu and Toolbar Control or other User Interface preferences for this setting.
+</para>
+</note>
+<note>
+<para>
+ For Windows systems this can be done by adding the line <emphasis>gtk-can-change-accels=1</emphasis> to <filename>%USERPROFILE%\.gtkrc-2.0</filename> (create the file if it does not exist).
+</para>
+</note>
+<para>From &app; 1.6+ the keyboard configuration is automatically loaded and saved between sessions in the <xref linkend="config_keys"/></para>
+</section>
+
<section><title>Tracks vs Routes</title>
<para>
In theory a route is path you are planning to follow and a track of where you have actually been. The GPX specification splits these into two separate catergories, although tracks contain everything route may have.
</section><!-- End Agg -->
-<section id="GeoRef" xreflabel="GeoRef"><title>GeoRef Layer</title>
-<para>
-This layer allows one to use any image as a map. You will need to tell it how to align the map to a position in the world and the scale of map.
-</para>
-<section><title>Layer Operations</title>
-<section><title>Zoom to Fit Map</title>
-<para>
-Automatically set a zoom level to see the entire map coverage.
-</para>
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Goto Map Center</title>
-<para>
-Center the viewport on this map.
-</para>
-
-</section>
-<section><title>Export to World File</title>
-<para>
-Opens a file save dialog to save the scale and position information as a <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file">World File</ulink>.
-</para>
-</section>
-</section>
-
-</section><!-- End GeoRef -->
+<xi:include href="georef_layer.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<section id="Coordinate" xreflabel="Coordinate"><title>Coordinate Layer</title>
<para>
</section>
-<section><title>Georef Map Layer Tools</title>
+<section id="georef_tools"><title>Georef Map Layer Tools</title>
<para>
You must have a <xref linkend="GeoRef"/> Map Layer selected to use these tools.
</para>
<para>This allows setting the specific location of GPSBabel.</para>
<para>&appname; will need to be restarted for this setting to take effect.</para>
</section>
+<section><title>Auto Read World Files</title>
+<para>If this is on, when a new image is selected for the GeoRef layer then the associated world file will be read to find the scale and positional properties.</para>
+<para>The associated file is based on filename patterns; e.g. if the image is <filename>filename.jpg</filename> - then the world file may be <filename>filename.jpgw</filename> or <filename>filename.jgw</filename></para>
+</section>
</section>
<section id="prefs_osm" xreflabel="OpenStreetMap Traces Preferences"><title>OpenStreetMap Traces</title>
</section>
</section>
+<section id="prefs_toolbar" xreflabel="Toolbar Preferences"><title>Toolbar</title>
+<section><title>Append to Menu</title>
+<para>Allows setting the toolbar on the same vertical space as the menu, thus increasing vertical space for the map.</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Icon Size</title>
+<para>Allows configuration of the icon size, including overiding the system's default preference to the setting desired just for &appname;</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Icon Style</title>
+<para>Allows configuration of the icon style, including overiding the system's default preference to the setting desired just for &appname;</para>
+</section>
+<section id="prefs_toolbar_customize" xreflabel="Customize Toolbar"><title>Customize</title>
+<para>Opens the Customize Toolbar dialog.</para>
+<para>From this dialog the items in the toolbar can be added, removed and reordered. Reordering of items is performed by drag and drop.</para>
+<figure>
+<title>Customize Toolbar dialog</title>
+<screenshot>
+ <graphic format="PNG" fileref="figures/customize_toolbar_dialog.png"/>
+</screenshot>
+</figure>
+</section>
+</section>
+
</section>
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</programlisting>
</para>
<para>You can find more examples in the documentation part of the distribution.</para>
- <section>
+ <section id="map_source" xreflabel="Map Source Extensions">
<title>Map Source</title>
<para>It is possible to add new map's sources. The file is <filename>~/.viking/maps.xml</filename> for <trademark>UNIX</trademark> like systems, <filename>C:\Documents and Settings\<replaceable>username</replaceable>\.viking\maps.xml</filename> on <trademark>Windows XP</trademark> or <filename>C:\Users\<replaceable>username</replaceable>\.viking\maps.xml</filename> on <trademark>Windows 7</trademark> onwards.</para>
<para>An example of the file is in the distribution <filename>doc/examples/maps.xml</filename>. Further examples and values are online in the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/viking/index.php?title=Maps">Maps Wiki</ulink></para>
<listitem>
<para>maps_real_min_shrinkfactor=0.0039062499</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>maps_scale_inc_down=4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>maps_scale_inc_up=2</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>maps_scale_smaller_zoom_first=true</para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>background_max_threads=10</para>
</listitem>
If within this range it will skip over this location and move on to the next saved history location.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>external_diary_program=rednotebook</para>
+ <para>Or in Windows it uses <filename>C:/Progra~1/Rednotebook/rednotebook.exe</filename> - This string value must use Unix separators and not have spaces.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>external_astro_program=stellarium</para>
+ <para>Or in Windows use <filename>C:/Progra~1/Stellarium/stellarium.exe</filename> - This string value must use Unix separators and not have spaces.
+ Further note due to this <ulink url="https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1410529">Bug</ulink> in Stellarium means this does not actually work. You will need to reference a shortcut, rather than the executable directly.</para>
+ </listitem>
</orderedlist>
<section>
<para>K = Some text to display at the start of the message - <emphasis>Trkpt</emphasis></para>
<para>A = Altitude of a Trackpoint</para>
<para>S = Speed of a Trackpoint</para>
+ <para>B = Vertical Speed (Climb)</para>
<para>C = Course of a Trackpoint</para>
<para>L = Location of a Trackpoint</para>
<para>T = Time of a Trackpoint</para>
</variablelist>
</para>
</section>
+
</section>
+ <section id="config_keys" xreflabel="Keyboard Shortcuts File">
+ <title>Keyboard Shortcuts (Accelerator) Settings</title>
+ <para>This is held in the file <filename>~/.viking/keys.rc</filename></para>
+ <para>It is in the standard GTK Accelerator map format. Values are automatically read in and saved between &app; sessions.</para>
+ <para>This file is not intended to be manually edited, but since it is a plain text file it can be changed if desired.</para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
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