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to zoom out until the desired final location appears in the view, and then zoom in on it. An
initial tactic after loading the background could be to display the whole real-world area (Whole
drawing option of the Arrange menu) and then zoom in on it. Another way of moving around
the real world is by ‘panning’. This is done by moving the mouse pointer and, at the same time,
pressing the right-most mouse button. The result is, sometimes, more convenient than clicking
on the horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars. The last way of moving around is by changing the
scale factor. This is done by directly typing the new scale value in the text box—located in the
message area. This has the same effect as a zoom in/out, but alters the scale by an arbitrary
factor.
3.4 Selecting objects for display
The user can choose the type of objects to display and also whether their identifiers and/or their
names are to be displayed in the drawing area also or not. This is done by going to the Layout
menu and choosing the Show objects... option. A dialog window appears, where for each object
there are three columns: the first one indicates whether or not this type of object is displayed,
the second columns refers to the identifier and the third one to the name, and their state is
changed with a single mouse click on its position with the mouse.
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