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3.1 Main Window Overview
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Main Window Overview
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The size of the main window can be changed by dragging on the resizing borders.
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Minimizing the Main Window will minimize all XTrackCAD windows.
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The Main Window contains (from the top down):
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Title bar
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Current filename, XTrackCAD version number, and window manager buttons. An asterisk (*) after the filename indicates that there are unsaved changes.
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Menu Bar
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Contains from left to right;
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Tool Bar
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Manipulate track and other objects
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Hot Bar (Section 2.7)
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Scrolling list of Turnouts and Structures
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Main Canvas
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Main drawing area with rulers along each side.
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The Main Canvas is where all tracks and objects are drawn.
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The scale of the Main Canvas can be changed using the;
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Zoom selections (Section 2.12.3) under the View (Section 2.12) menu
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Zoom buttons on the Tool-bar
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Mouse Wheel
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PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys.
Note: If The scale 1::1 is reached, "Macro Zoom" mode can be entered using CTRL+PageDown - with repeated presses a scale of 10::1 is possible.
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Tracks will be drawn with two lines and ties if you zoom in. When the drawing scale is 1:1 a dashed centerline is also drawn for each track.
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The ARROW keys move the Canvas left, right, up or down by half a screen. If Shift is used together with the arrow keys, the movement will be 1/20th of screen in the selected direction.
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Map Window
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You can change which portion of the layout is displayed by using the Map Window (Section 3.2.2).
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Status Bar
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Contains from left to right;
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Drawing scale of the Main Canvas,
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X position of the cursor,
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Y position of the cursor,
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Status and informational messages