Image view

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The Image view is located to the right of the form, tree- and list view. The image displayed is the currently selected record in the list view. Initially Orbit Front only displays a quickview/thumbnail of the image. This is to make browsing of the database faster. The full image can be loaded from the database by double clicking on the quickview/thumbnail. Hitting F3 and enabling the Disable Quickview Mode option can disable displaying of quickview/thumbnail. Each time a record is saved to database a new quickview is automatically generated. The size of this new quickview can be set from the F3 dialog as well.

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Zoom

You can zoom the image by dragging rectangles with the left mouse button.

Image Toolbar

The Image toolbar contains the following buttons:

Maximize view

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Maximize image view, hides the form, tree and list views.

Fit to window

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Fits the image to the Image window.

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Prints the image. Please note: it's possible to get the field values printed together with the image. Click on the menu item View è Options… and select Image Field Print Setup.

Export

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Exports the image to a local file on your harddisk.

Copy

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Copies the image to the Windows clipboard.

Tool Setup

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Click on this icon to attach external image tools to the Image toolbar:

Click on Add… and select the executable file you want to be able to execute from Orbit Front. When you click OK, Orbit Front fills out default values for the edit boxes below; You can remove an image tool by selecting it and then clicking on Remove. Reorder the image tools by selecting an image tool and then click on Move Up or Move Down.

Menu Text

The text that appears in the Image menu.

Command

The path and name of the executable file.

Arguments

Arguments to the executable file.

Initial Directory

The initial working directory for the executable file.

File format

If the document is a raster file the executable file starts up with the image in the selected file format. If the file format is different from the database file format, Orbit Front automatically converts the image to the selected file format.

Once you have defined your tool the tool will automatically display in the Image View toolbar as a separate icon. Moving the mouse over the icon the name of the tool will display as a ToolTip text. If you click the icon, the current image is opened with the tool application.

Back, Home and Forward buttons

If you have MS Internet Explorer 5 or greater, you can open a HTML document in the archive and navigate in it. Orbit Front will then display the normal browser Back, Forward and Home buttons for easier navigation. They will not appear until a link is followed. The buttons looks like this

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The first button is back, the middle button is home and the last button is forward. Home will take you back to the record from where the navigation started.