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User Guide GeoDMS GUI - GUI Options dialog

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The GUI Options dialog can be activated from the Settings main menu option.

The following options can be set:

TreeView

  • Follow OS layout: By default the TreeView presents tiny light grey lines, supporting the user in relating subitems to their parent items. Seldom, in some configurations, drawing these lines caused issues; in these cases enable this option. The default style of the Operating System is now used for the TreeView. Since GeoDMS 20.19.2 the way the active item is marked follows the desktop theme -- accent colour and dark mode -- whether this option is on or off; see TreeView, section colours.
  • Show hidden items: Tree Items can be configured to be hidden in the tree (by configuring the [property]]: isHidden = "True"). If so configured, the option Show hidden items shows or hides these items in the [[TreeView]]. The same switch — also known as admin mode — can be set for a single session with the /SA resp. /CA [command line option, which is the way to start one project with hidden items visible without changing the setting for every other project. A configuration can also carry its own value, as ConfigSettings/Overridable/ShowHiddenItems (see Config Options dialog); that value is applied every time the configuration is opened, on top of whatever is ticked here. Note that pressing OK in this dialog writes all of its checkboxes to the registry, including a value that came from the command line.
  • Show state colors: By activating this option, colors are used in the TreeView to indicate the status of a tree item. Colors can be selected for the three mentioned statuses.

Map View

  • Background color: The background color (by default white) for the Map View can be set here.
  • Default classification ramp colors: for default classifications in the Map View, a color ramp is used for which a start and end color can be set.
  • Minimum pixel size for drawing polygons: on a large scale, small polygons might become invisible. With this setting polygons that are drawn less than the configured pixel size at a certain scale are not drawn. Increasing this size makes drawing a polygon layer faster. The PenWidth/PenWorldWidth settings are not taken into account while deciding on whether or not to draw a polygon.

Table/Statistics View

  • Show thousand separator: A thousand separator in numbers can be set to make (large) numbers easier to read.

Startup (since GeoDMS 20.16.0)

  • Reopen last configuration at startup: if activated, the GeoDMS GUI loads the configuration of the previous session again when it is started without a configuration on the command line. By default this option is off: the GeoDMS starts with an empty project, and a configuration is opened with File > Open Configuration, from the list of recent configurations, or with File > Reopen last Configuration (Alt-R). See Desktop components, section starting the application.

    Before GeoDMS 20.16.0 the last configuration was always reopened; GeoDMS 20.0.4 up to 20.15.x asked for a confirmation first in a Reopen last configuration? dialog, which could end up behind other windows. Users who want the old behaviour back activate this option once.