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Three buttons at the top right of the map control window activities. | Three buttons at the top right of the map control window activities. | ||
*Clicking on the X will | *Clicking on the X will <span style="color:#c46960">Close</span> the Map Beta window. | ||
*Clicking on the magnifying glass icon will open the | *Clicking on the magnifying glass icon will open the <span style="color:#c46960">Search</span> box. As you begin to type in the box, the search will give you a list of matching star systems. Click on a star name to focus the map on that system and draw a dotted line to there from your current position. If you click on a moon or other object, that object will be focused in the center of the map, and the map will zoom in to show the star system in detail.) | ||
*Clicking on the little square with the dot in the middle will open the | *Clicking on the little square with the dot in the middle will open the <span style="color:#c46960">Resize</span> option box. Here you set the map window to full screen mode, dock it to either side of your screen, or tell it to float in the middle of your screen. The docked windows can be resized left or right ... the floating window can be resized in any direction. | ||
Four buttons at the top left of the map control formatting. | Four buttons at the top left of the map control formatting. | ||
*The rightmost "Focus" button will always center the map on <span style="color:# | *The rightmost "Focus" button will always center the map on <span style="color:#85c08a">your position</span>. | ||
*The leftmost <span style="color:# | *The leftmost <span style="color:#85c08a">Layout</span> button opens a menu that lets you change the display of star groups and jump lines. You can group systems by region or constellation, or you can have no grouping. Similarly, you can show all jump gate lines, all the ones in the region you are looking at, or just the ones connected to the star you have selected. At the bottom of this menu is a box labeled "Abstract Layout." Checking this box collapses the map into a flat, more 2-dimensional view. | ||
*The second, <span style="color:# | *The second, <span style="color:#85c08a">Color</span> button opens an extensive menu of data items. Clicking on an item tells the map to color the stars according to that kind of data. "Security Status", for example, shows the typical green, yellow and red colors of the various levels. Some data types produce fuzzy balls around some systems - "Ships Destroyed in the Last 24 Hours" for example, puts a sphere around each star ... bigger for greater totals of killed ships. | ||
*The third, greyish button opens a menu that lets you show or hide <span style="color:# | *The third, greyish button opens a menu that lets you show or hide <span style="color:#85c08a">Solar System Markers</span>. These show icons for such as planets, stations, locations, and asteroid belts. Markers are only visible when you are zoomed in for a closeup view of a system. | ||
== Using the Map Beta Controls == | == Using the Map Beta Controls == | ||