1. Week of February 5 Today’s agenda: –Announcements & reminders –Submit Assignment #2 –Graphic layout –Printing –Scripts

2. Announcements & Reminders Printers - problems last week with the printer buffer required that the GIS lab be closed last Friday for an upgrade Assignment #3 is due next week

3. Assignment #2 is due today If you have the assignment ready, please submit it now

4. Layouts Some more detail on preparing your layouts

5. Graphic layout in MFworks Your maps should include a title A labeled legend A Scale BarAnd a North Arrow

6. MFworks tools for preparing layouts Pointer tool for selecting and moving items Grid tool North arrow Box outline options Zoom level Zoom out Send layout to printer Print to a PICT file Insert text Insert Legend Insert Scale Bar Opacity/Transparency option Zoom in Page setup Layout redraw button

7. Printing your layouts Check the layout size (go to layout menu -> output size) Your layouts should be one 8.5x11 page (like this here) When you are ready to print press the layout window “Print” button No need to change the default printer or any of the printer options

8. Scripting

9. The Script window GIS Operations menu for building script statements Mathematical functions menu Commands (ex. Save map) Translators for importing/exporting data into/out of the GIS List of map names available in the current project Operators (ex. AND, OR, NOT) KeyPad (numbers and the …)

10. Building Scripts Use the operations menu to help construct script operation statements ‘fly-out’ menus from the operations menu contain the modifiers for operation statements

11. Use the Map/File Names menu to insert map names into your script statements List of available maps in this project

12. Example script building

13. You can check the syntax of the entire script

14. or individual selections

15. Include comments in the scripts you build to help explain the logic

16. A note about writing your script statements Examples in lectures and help files are meant to provide a template of the structure of an MFwork operation statement You may substitute your map names for the names provided in italics Optional modifiers are specified in square brackets [ ] For example: newmap = Cover basemap with maplayer1 [ with maplayer2 ] ;

17. That’s all for the lecture portion of the show Remainder of today is for working on Assignment #3 Don’t forget to submit Assignment #2 Any questions?