Geographic Data View Styles
Each geographic data view object has an associated Geographic Data View Style. The style determines how the object is going to be displayed and contains options for setting various attributes associated with the object. Each style refers to a particular type of object. Geographic data view objects cannot be individually formatted; they will always obey the formatting of their associated style.
The Geographic Data View Options dialog is used to create and modify styles that will determine the appearance of geographic data view objects. This dialog is part of the Geographic Data View Customization dialog when adding new geographic data view objects to a display, but it becomes a stand-alone dialog when modifying the styles for existing objects. To open as a stand-alone dialog, right-click on an existing geographic data view object and choose View Geographic Data View Options from the local menu.
Usually, groups of objects share the same geographic data view style. Keep in mind that changing the options in a style will change all of the objects that use this style.
Geographic Data View Options Dialog
The Geographic Data View Options dialog is made up of four main sections and tabs:
Object and Field Display Option Sets
This section allows the saving, renaming, and deleting of Geographic Data View Styles. Only those styles for a particular Object Type will be displayed in the Style Name dropdown box. Style names must be unique within an Object Type. Geographic data view styles can be stored in the standard auxiliary file format. When saving or loading an auxiliary file from this dialog, all geographic data view styles will be stored or loaded regardless of the current object type. The default is to store the information in a data auxiliary file, .AUX, but these objects are also supported in display auxiliary files, .AXD.
Object Records
The object records tab lists the data objects that are linked to the geographic data view style, through their associated geographic data view display objects, selected when the dialog is opened. The caption of this tab will be updated to reflect the class type of object that is represented. For example, if viewing bus objects, the caption will be Bus Records instead of Object Records. These are either the data objects selected before creating a new geographic data view or data objects represented by existing geographic data view objects that are using the selected style. The format of the display objects represented by these data objects will be changed based on any changes made to the options. To assign a group of geographic data view display objects to a new style, simply select a different style than the style in place when opening the dialog and click either the OK button on the Geographic Data View Options dialog (existing data object was selected) or the Create Geo Data View Display and Close Dialog button on the Geographic Data View Customizations dialog (new geographic data view objects are being created).
To change the style of a single geographic data view display object and assign it to a new style, use the Display Explorer. Within the Display Explorer, case information displays for geographic data view objects are available. The style is given in the field Geographic Data View Style Name (variable name GEODATAVIEWSTYLENAME). To change the style, change the name listed in this field to a style that is available for the type of object being changed.