Toolbars

Map Toolbar

See also the Map Menu.

Zoom In	Zooms in on the current map. You can also zoom in and out by using your mouse wheel, or the zoom slider control in the top left corner of the mouse. If turning the mouse wheel appears to have no effect, click on the map and try again.
Zoom Out	Zooms out on the current map
View Home Region	Zoom map to show your home region. For example, if you are American, your home region will be the U.S.A. If you are Australian, it will be Australia. You can change your home region to match whatever view the map window is currently showing, by choosing Use Current Position as 'Home' Region on the Map menu. You can also reset the home region to its installation default by clicking on Reset 'Home' Region on the Map menu. Both options affect, and only affect, the behaviour of the View Home Region toolbar button and menu command.
View All Markers	Zoom the map to show all markers
Select Area to View	Click-and-drag on the map to draw a stretchy box around the area you wish to zoom the map to.
Time Slider	Enables the time slider control, which appears below the map. In order to use it, the map must contain one or more marker sets of the 'Individuals and Places' type. The time slider has no useful role with marker sets which just show the location of (undated) Place records. When the time slider is enabled, you can drag it sideways to hide or show places. Only those markers which have dates that fall within the current range of the time slider, will be visible. This way, it is easy to watch the movements of people over time, as locations changed. By default, markers which have no date associated with them (which includes both markers for Place records, and markers for undated events) will be hidden when the time slider is active. However, this is configurable in Preferences (Map Window tab).
Enable Marker Dragging	If a marker is in the wrong position and you wish to move it, you can drag the marker to the right position - but first you must enable marker dragging, by clicking this option. Caution: It can easily happen that you get several markers on top of one another. Consequently there is a risk that you might move the wrong one. To prevent this, you are recommended to always hide all markers except the one you wish to move, before dragging markers. You can easily hide all markers in a marker set by unticking the 'Check All' option in the top-left corner of the Map Window. Sometimes when you want to move a marker, the destination is not close to the starting position. In that case, you may find it easier to locate the destination in the map, and drag the place from the marker list on the left side, to the desired location in the map. You do not need to have previously enabled marker dragging to do this.