Each of these layers can be toggled on and off in the View menu or by using the control bar buttons.
Panning and Zooming
The vertical toolbar on the left side of the display has buttons for selecting panning and zooming
tools. The panning tool (or Translate Tool)
can be used to click and drag the active view of the
ship or you can use the arrow keys for panning.
The zoom tool
allows three types of zooming control. Left click to zoom in, right click to zoom
out, and click-and-drag a box around any desired area to zoom with precise control. You can also
use the hotkeys: O for zooming out and I for zooming in.
Other display controls
The other buttons in the toolbar can be identified by placing the mouse pointer over them, callouts
will indicate their functions. They are also pictured and labeled with their functions in the Display
section of the Introduction as well as in Appendix 3: Toolbar Buttons.
Record Annotations
To enter an annotation into the survey record choose
Add Annotation
from the Item menu, or hit
the space bar, and fill in the appropriate information when the Annotation Window pops up. For quick
annotations use the “spacebar”. Another method of entering an annotation is to right click, with the
mouse, on the image where you would like to place the annotation and enter your text.
Annotations are automatically saved by DiveBase in a text file with the extension “txt”. This will
create an annotation file with the same name as the “.shr” file but with ANN added to the name.
Example: spruance.shr will have a spruanceANN.txt for annotations.
Appendix A: Troubleshooting
