Overview
This lesson discusses how to adjust objects in Chyron Weather's Edit mode.
| Prerequisites: Lessons: 01, 03, 04, 05, 08. |
Object Adjustment Options
Objects may be adjusted in several ways in Chyron Weather's Edit mode.
Image description: Start Edit mode
Options are (select by clicking on the object to be adjusted):
| Icon | Action |
| Move | |
| Move (for geo objects) | |
| Replace or edit | |
| Scale | |
| Duplicate |
| Note: Sometimes a Subscene may contain another Subscene. Such Subscenes are known as nested Subscenes. To select a nested Subscene, double click the Subscene within the Subscene to select it, then click again to edit it. |
Image description: Object edit options (Screen referenced)
Image description: Object edit options (Geo referenced)
Move
Image description: Moving a screen referenced object
Moving a screen referenced object will move the object relative to its initial screen position just like moving an object in an image editor.
To move the object just click Move icon and drag the object to the desired position.
Lesson 9.7 indicates the move icon.
Moving a geo referenced object will move the object relative to its initial geo referenced position.
As an additional move option, a geo move, will move the object’s geographical position, that is, assign it a new latitudinal and longitudinal set of values.
Image description: Moving a geo referenced object
Lesson 9.9 indicates the Geo move icon.
There are two ways to move a geo object. Using will change the screen position relative to the geo position. The geo position is shown by
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Image description: Object with a screen offset to its geo position
Using will change the latitude, longitude position of the object together with the possible screen displacement.
Objects having an offset from their original geo location will behave differently from objects directly placed on their geo location when zooming in or out the map. A geo referenced object with a screen offset looks as if it moves away from its geographical position when zooming out.
Duplicate
Image description: Duplicate icon
Click and drag the duplicate icon on the object to create a copy of the original object at the desired position.
Scale
Image description: Scale icon
Click and drag the scale icon diagonally to scale the object uniformly along both axes (no change to aspect ratio), horizontally to scale the object along its X axis or vertically to scale the object along its Y axis.
See Lesson 9.12, Lesson 9.13 and Lesson 9.14 for illustration of each of these options.
Image description: Uniform scale
Image description: Scale along X-axis
Image description: Scale along Y-axis
Replace / Modify
Image description: Replace or modify icon
Click the replace icon and select a new object to replace the existing object with.
In some cases, the object may be modified. For example, the object is an editable text field or temperature value.
Lesson 9.17 illustrates the available options:
Image description: Object modifications options
With reference to Lesson 9.17, reading from left to right, the options are:
- Undo changes
- Save
- Close
- Delete
- Accept changes
If a database value (e.g. temperature or symbol) is changed and the changes are not saved to the database, the data connection is cut, and the value is set explicit.
Undo / Redo
Click the Undo or Redo buttons to undo or redo changes made whilst editing objects.
The Undo / Redo history does not persist between editing sessions.
Image description: Undo and Redo actions
Nested subscenes
It is also possible to adjust subscenes, that are nested within other subscenes. The outer subscene and inner subscenes are editable, when there is a frame around the objects. For example, if you have a city outlook diagram and want to change the city used for the diagram. In this case change the outer subscene by a single click. If you want to change or edit a symbol of the outlook you need to double click on the object to access the object nested inside. Then click again to edit, scale or move. To exit editing of the nested object click somewhere in the greyed-out area.
Adjusting vector objects
Editing drawn objects/Vertex objects (arrows, areas, fronts, lines…) is not possible. They can only be deleted and re-drawn.
Image description: Accessing nested objects
Resetting modified objects
The presence of Modified Objects within a Playlist is indicated by a white pen sign contained within a blue square in a Segment Thumbnail Window.
Image description: Modified objects indicator
Modified Objects may be reset in two ways:
- Globally
- Individually
To reset Modified Objects globally, click the Application Menu Button then click the Reset All Modified Objects menu item. All the Modified Objects contained within the Playlist will be reset.
Image description: Reset all modified object in current playlist
The indicator, shown in Lesson 9.24, will clear:
Image description: Modified objects indicator cleared
To reset Modified Objects individually, select the Content Collection containing the object(s):
Image description: A content collection containing a modified object
Modified Objects will appear in blue text. Select an object, then click the Reset button.
The object will reset. Lesson 9.26 illustrates a Content Collection containing a reset Modified Object:
Image description: A Content Collection illustrating a reset Modified Object
Lesson Activities
Quiz |
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Questions |
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Question 1: Modifying a value in a subscene in edit mode _____. A. automatically changes the database value B. changes the value in the subscene C. creates a modified copy of the subscene Question 2: Which objects are not possible to move after placing them? A. Objects which are linked to a subscene B. Vertex (drawn) objects C. All objects can be moved Question 3: How to scale an object without changing the aspect ratio? A. Move the scaling point on the yellow diagonal B. The aspect ratio cannot be changed when scaling an object C. Hold the alt key while scaling the object
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Answers |
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1. The correct answer is C. 2. The correct answer is B. 3. The correct answer is A. |
Tasks
- Create a new, empty playlist and insert a city outlook with temperatures and symbols.
- Change some symbol and temperature values .(Warning: Don’t save it into the database.)
- Reset the changes manually.