Saving/Loading Editor and Perspective Displays

Purpose:

This task will demonstrate how to save/load editor and perspective displays.

Tasks:

  1. From the Satellite menu, select Visible.
  2. Right-click on the Map editor tab and select New Editor.                                                                                                                                                                              Add an addiotional map editor.
  3. Make sure you have the new editor tab highlighted in blue, making that the active editor. Then from one of the dedicated radar menus, select 0.5 Z+V.
  4. Left-click on the first editor to make it active.
  5. From the CAVE menu, select Load/Save Displays, then select Save Editor Display.                                                                     The Save Editor Display option selected from the CAVE menu.
  6. In the pop-up window, select the destination you wish to save this display, then name (e.g. EditorDisplay) the display, and left-click on the OK button to save. The file will be saved with a .xml extension.
  7. Right-click on either of the two editors and select New Editor and leave the new one blank.
  8. From the CAVE menu, select Load/Save Displays, then select Save Perspective Displays to save all the editors, including the new blank one.
  9. In the pop-up window, either enter a name (PerspectiveDisplays) for this display or left-click on the File button and enter the name in the subsequent window, then left-click on the OK button to save.
  10. From the CAVE menu, select Load/Save Displays, then select Load Displays.
    1. Click on the File button to find the location of your saved editor display file (e.g. EditorDisplay.xml) and select it. Then left-click on the subsequent OK buttons to load it. You should see that the visible satellite product from step 1 should be loaded into the third editor.
    2. Find the location of your perspective display file (e.g. PerspectiveDisplay.xml; typically listed after selecting "Load Displays..." from the CAVE menu) then left-click on the OK button to load it. You should see two editors load, the first containing a visible satellite product and the second containing a 0.5 Z+V radar product. The last editor should be blank.                                                                                                                    Open Perspective Display.
  11. You should have observed that only the Save Perspective Displays option saved data in all the editor tabs. The Save Editor Display option only saved data in the active tab. Therefore, if you would like to save a bundle that uses more than one editor tab, use the Save Perspective Displays option.
  12. Task Complete!