Start SuperEdit by double-clicking its icon that was created by Setup . In the File Open dialog choose File Type TCD and open the file townmap.tcd from the SuperEdit ’s DOC subdirectory. You should see the SuperEdit screen layout, as in the figure below.
The content of the townmap.tcd document, consisting of four raster images, is presented graphically in the right part of the SuperEdit window, named Drawing window. The left part, named TCD Contents window, displays the structure of the document, with townmap.tcd as a root node and with four sub-nodes townmap1.tif , townmap2.tif , townmap3.tif , townmap4.tif that correspond to individual raster images. You may easily identify which node corresponds to which raster image by double clicking at the small bitmap picture displayed near each node name, thus selecting or de-selecting appropriate raster image. Selected nodes have their names displayed using bold font. Selected raster images are presented with thin black frame with small black handles displayed around its extents.
The TCD Contents window is displayed only if you work with Tessel Composite Documents . When working with simple raster or vector drawings, SuperEdit acts like single-drawing editor.
In the upper part of the main window, SuperEdit displays several toolbars with buttons and other controls. The first one, named Main toolbar, contains most common and general options, like New / Open / Save document buttons, general Undo / Redo buttons, various Zoom buttons, other buttons specific to whole composite document like Select or Views , section of Print supporting buttons and Help buttons. The Raster toolbar contains buttons with various raster-editing commands; they are active if some raster drawings are selected . The Vector toolbar’s buttons allow creating, modifying and manipulating vector entities in the current foreground vector drawing, if one exists. Other specific toolbars facilitate performing more complicated actions, e.g. calibration.
You can see the name of each toolbar button in a ToolTip . When you point to a button with the mouse cursor for a longer while, the button’s name will appear in a box. We will use those names while referring to the buttons later in this manual. You can find more descriptive explanation of the button’s action in their hints displayed in the status line.
Depending on the status of SuperEdit session some of the buttons may be inactive and displayed with grayed faces.
One of toolbars has two edit boxes with numerical coordinates. This is the Input bar. You can read position of the mouse cursor in the Drawing window from there and enter desired values in various drafting operations. The position is displayed in terms of world coordinates; you may control the coordinate system and the presentation units, using appropriate combo boxes of the Input bar.
If you cannot find some toolbars, it is possible that somebody has turned them off. Use appropriate option from the View menu to switch it on.
All commands available from toolbar buttons may be accessed from main window menu, as well. All SuperEdit commands are organized in several topics according to MS Windows style; in addition to well-known File , Edit , View , Window and Help standard topics you will find topics specific to SuperEdit functionality like Raster , Vector , Document and Zoom . Please read chapter 6 for detailed description of main menu structure and complete explanation of all SuperEdit commands.
To facilitate instant access to manipulate on different objects and to enhance support for more complicated operations SuperEdit uses pop-up menus. They are activated by right mouse button click into some object or some window. Three kind of pop-up menus may be distinguished:
Composite Document pop-up menu ( CDM ) that is displayed after right click into specific node of document tree, displayed in the window. The set of options shown depends on the node type;
Drawing Window pop-up menu ( DWM ) that is displayed after right click into Drawing window, but only if foreground vector drawing is presented there. The set of options depends on the state of selection of vector entities contained in the foreground drawing;
Options and Tools pop-up menu ( OTM ) that is displayed during more complicated commands performed in Drawing window, to give you access to various commands’ options and other tools (like raster snaps). Sometimes OTM is displayed automatically when you are supposed to complete the command by necessary decisions.
To make description of various actions shorter, common notation like e.g. “ CDM Disable ”, “ DWM Select ” or “ OTM Accept ” will be used to describe options accessible from appropriate menu after activating it using right mouse button click.