Loading the Large Towns Into the Map

In this section you will see how to set renderer properties, edit layers, and save your Rogue Wave® Views map.

The information for large towns is in the file named Pppoly.shp in the <shapedir> directory.

1. Choose Insert Map File from the File menu.

2. Browse to, for example, the Pppoly.shp file and open it.

3. On the Rendering page, set the Fill color value to dark grey. To do this, click the color field once, and then choose the grey color.

4. Set a Line color. For example Black.

Note: If you do not want the area boundary lines to be drawn, you can choose “None” in the color combo box.

5. On the Attributes page, clear the Attach attributes check box.

6. Click OK.

Version 6.0