Customizing WiseImage

Brief description: In this lesson you will learn how to customize the interface and various parameters of WiseImage.

Customizing Program Parameters

Choose Preferences from the Tools menu.

Using the Preferences dialog box you can customize the following parameters:

  • Cursor’s appearance, color and size.
  • Size and color of “grips”, which appear when selecting objects.
  • Colors of interface elements;(e.g., color of selected raster objects, color of the program window background, etc.).
  • Preview window style for Binarization. 
  • Snap settings (aperture size, snap markers’ size and color, tooltips display).
  • Filter usage mode; setting limit for displaying object properties.
  • Modifying the existing standard paper formats and adding new ones.
  • Defining the path to OCR template files, symbols to external filters folders.
  • List of operations for autocorrect.
  • Default properties for new raster images.
  • Settings for the New raster from selection command (keep or erase the original raster object).
  • Properties (width and color) of clipping edge used for vector correction.
  • Style and size of markers for vector point display.
  • Templates usage.
  • Settings for batch script (linear and angle units, default file name and report name).
  • Mode of monochrome raster display.
  • Turning on/off the use of World-file. (For GIS’s users).
This general information includes the description of WiseImage parameters, which can be customized by the user. For more detailed information see the corresponding sections of User’s guide and Help.

Customizing Interface

You can customize the WiseImage interface:

  • Create new toolbars and modify the existing ones.
  • Create new menu items and modify the existing ones.
  • Assign acceleration keys.
  • Modify context (right-button) menu.      

To start modifying the interface choose Customize from the Tools menu.

Creating a new toolbar

        
  • Press New on the Toolbars tab.
  • Specify a name for the new toolbar that appears in the list.
  • Go to the Commands tab. Select the required group of commands from the Categories list, and then choose a command from the Commands list and drag it to the newly created toolbar.
    Repeat this operation for all commands, which you want to place on the new toolbar.

Modifying a toolbar

Working in this mode, you can rename toolbars, add buttons from the list located in the Commands tab, delete and move buttons to other toolbars.

How to modify a toolbar:

Choose Customize from the Tools menu.
To rename (delete) a toolbar select it from the list of the Toolbars tab and press Rename (Delete).
You can move (delete) buttons using the drag and drop technique.
Information on adding commands from the list of Commands is provided in section Creating a new toolbar.

IMPORTANT: If you want to reset a modified standard toolbar to its original state, select it and press the Reset button in the Toolbars tab.

Turning on/off toolbar display

You can turn on/off the display of toolbars on the screen. For this you can choose Show Toolbar from the View menu and then select Check Mark for desired toolbars.

Creating a new menu item

Choose Customize from the Tools menu.

From the Categories list of the Commands tab choose New Menu.

  • Place the cursor on the New Menu string of the Commands list, click and drag cursor to the menu item string where you want to place the new item. 
  • You can select commands for a new menu item in the same way as for a new toolbar. 
    Information on adding commands from the list of Commands is provided in section Creating a new toolbar. 

Modifying a menu

You can rename menu items, add, delete, move and group menu commands.

How to modify a menu:

Choose Customize from the Tools menu.

  • To rename a menu item: place the cursor over it, right-click and choose Rename from the right-button menu.
  • If you want to group some menu commands, choose Begin Group from the right-button context menu
  • You can move (delete) commands using the drag and drop technique.
    Information on adding commands from the list of Commands is provided in section Creating a new toolbar. 

IMPORTANT: If you want to reset all menu items to their original state press the Reset All button, located in the Toolbars tab. Note that pressing this button resets all interface modifications made by the user.

Assign acceleration keys:

  • Start customizing the interface by choosing Customize from the Tools menu. Open the Keyboard tab.
  • Select the desired group of commands from Category, and then the command from the Commands list.
  • Enter a desired key combination in Press new acceleration key field.
  • If this key combination has already been assigned, the name of the command for which this combination is already used appears in the Assigned to field.
  • Press Assign, if this combination is not already used (message: Unassigned in the Assigned to field).
  • To delete the existing acceleration keys, select them from Current keys and press Remove.        

Modifying context (right-button) menu

You can modify the list of commands contained in context (right-button) menu.

  • Choose Customize from the Tools menu, and then the Menus tab.
  • Select a command from the list, for which you intend to modify the context (right-button) menu.
  • Press the Customize button.
  • Modify the appeared context menu.

      

NOTE: If you want to reset modified context menu to the original, select it from the list and press the Reset button. 

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