Introduction
You can add comments to maps. This feature is primarily intended for reviewing maps and sending these reviews to the map author. Of course you can also use this feature to add comments just for personal use. Comments are displayed as yellow sticky notes in the map. You can fold these notes to save space, and you can modify their transparency (opaque, transparent or invisible).
MYmap does not save comments to the map itself, but to an extra file. This makes it easy to combine different sets of comments with the same main file. Moreover, existing comments can easily be combined with a newly revised version of a map.
Managing Comments
Before you start:
- Enter your name at Tools → Settings → Personal Profile. MYmap adds your name to every comment.
- Make sure the map you want to comment has been saved at least once using MYmap v.5. Unsaved maps and maps saved with previous versions cannot be commented.
Select Tools → Comments → Edit Comments or click the Comments icon in the toolbar in order to enter comment editing mode. A smoked glass pane is added on top of the map: this indicates you are working on a different layer. When in comment editing mode, it is not possible to access objects in the map; all editing steps affect the comments layer exclusively. Issue the command mentioned above again to exit comment editing mode. This allows you to access map objects again; the smoked glass pane disappears. You may enter and leave comment editing mode as often as required.
Use File → Save Comments Layer as… to store your comments. When you open the map again at a later point of time, no comments are being displayed at first. Select the command File → Open Comments Layer… to make the previously saved comments layer available again. In order to send your comments to the map author, send this file only. The map author can add it to the map already stored on his computer.
Editing Comments
- Create comment: Double-click anywhere. A sticky note appears. Enter the comment, then click outside the sticky note to save your entry. MYmap automatically adds the name of the author and a timestamp to every comment.
- Modify comment: Click a sticky note. The comment is selected (a white border is shown). Click again, and a text box is shown; change the caption as desired. Click outside the sticky note to apply your changes.
- Move comment: Click a sticky note. The comment is being selected (a white border is shown). Point to it and press and hold the left mouse button. Move the mouse to move the sticky note as desired, then release the mouse button again.
- Delete comment: Double-click the red cross in the top right corner of the stiky note. MYmap permanently deletes the comment without prompting for confirmation.
- Fold/unfold comment: You can fold sticky notes in order to save space by clicking the dark blue circle segment in the top left corner of a sticky note. To unfold the sticky note again, click the light blue circle. Folding state is retained outside comment editing mode. MYmap shows a tooltip when the mouse pointer hovers over a folded sticky note.
Image 5-1: Unfolded and folded comment in comment editing mode