This is an old revision of the document!
User Interface Overview
The ToolMap user interface integrates the following elements:
Menu bar
Toolbar
Table of content
Visualization and editing window
Status bar
In the menu bar nine menus are available, each of them will lead you to different options:
Project: This menu contains all options related to the project management.
Data: This menu allows the user to add or import support data into the project.
View: The view menu contains all options for navigating and zooming into the displayed data.
Selection: This menu contains tools for managing the selection.
Edition: All tools related to the editing process are located into this menu.
Attribution: This menu contains the tools used when attributing datas.
Validation: This menu contains the tools used to check the objects and layers before exportation as well as the Statistics… tool.
Window: windows management.
Help: The Help Menu provides various help functions as well as options for reporting a bug.
The toolbar is accessible on top of the application window, right under the menu bar. It allows to quickly access to the different main tools available in ToolMap. Most of the toolbar buttons are grayed out while no project is open.

Select one or several geometrical objects

Zoom to the maximum extent of all visible layers

Zoom in or out into the visualization window

Pan the view in any direction

Go back to the previous zoom extent

Draw a new object

Modify an existing object

Modify shared node

Display the Object kind panel

Display the Object attribute window

Display the identification window
Scale

Drop-down menu of available scales. User defined scale can be set using the Project → Edit → Settings menu
Table of Content
The table of content shows a list of all the layers loaded in the project. It looks like the following:
Construction layers, they are automatically generated at the creation of the project and can be edited. They are displayed using a bold font.
Support Themes, they cannot be edited.
Status bar
The status bar at the bottom of the application window provides additional informations like geographical coordinates or the number of features selected.
Layouts
You can access Toolmap's different layouts using the Layout option of the Window menu. These allow you to use three different kinds of windows disposition :
The
Default layout, which is the one you get when first launching Toolmap. This is the one displayed in the
User Interface Overview above.
The Vertical layout, which includes all the useful windows in a vertical display.
The Horizontal layout, which includes the same windows than the Vertical layout but do so in the left border and the bottom of the display window.
You can freely close any of the tab you wish using the corresponding menu or reorganise your tabs by clicking and droping them where you want them to be. ToolMap will then remember your new custom layout and display it when you launch it.
You can switch back to one of the three base layouts anytime by simply selecting them again in the Window menu.
keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts have been set to the most used functions to make the use of Toolmap easier/quicker.
Under Mac OSX, Ctrl is replaced by the standard CMD(⌘) button.
Project management
Ctrl+N: Create a new empty project
Ctrl+Alt+N: Create a new project based on a template
Ctrl+Alt+O: Open an existing project
Ctrl+S: Backup the project
Ctrl+Alt+S: Save the project as a template
Ctrl+Alt+E: Open the export layer window
Ctrl+O: Link data
Ctrl+W: Unlink data
V: Selection tool
Ctrl+D: Clear Selection
Ctrl+Z: Remove the last vertex
D: Draw a feature
M: Modify a feature
Ctrl+T: Move a shared Node
Ctrl+V: Display the vertex positions window
DEL: Delete the selected objects
Ctrl+X: Activate the line cutter tool
Ctrl+F: Merge the selected lines
Ctrl+I: Create intersections
Ctrl+Alt+F: Flip the selected line (change the orientation)
Ctrl+G: Display the snapping panel
ENTER OR TAB: Finish a segment or apply the modifications
ESC: Cancel an edition or modification
Ctrl+A: Display the Object attribute window
Ctrl+Alt+A: Display the Object attribute window (batch)
Ctrl+Y: Set Orientation tool
Others
Ctrl+L: Display the log window
Ctrl+Alt+R: Run the selected query
Ctrl+Alt+I: Display the information Window