TPC Desktop for Windows
View Interaction

The Traverse View, Survey View, and Quick View affect each other. Understanding this relationship is important to be able to produce and save Drawings.

Refer to the Technote on Drawings for a narrative on how they work and how you can make sure your drawings are the way they should be. Refer to the Drawing Quick Start Technote for step-by-step procedures to produce a drawing. Refer to the Technote on TRV and DRV Files for information on where your drawings are stored.

Active and Inactive Windows

In Windows, only one window can be active at any time. This is the window you are currently working in. In Traverse PC, this means that only one of the Survey View, Point View, Quick View, Closure View, Message View, a Traverse View, or a dialog box is active at any time although any number of windows may be visible.

You can identify which view is the active view by the color of its Title Bar. The active window title bar is usually a brighter color than the inactive windows' title bars (note that you can customize this option so it is possible that your title bars are a different color than everyone else's). The active window title bar is the same color as the Traverse PC title bar. You can also identify the active window by going to the Window menu and looking for which view has a check mark by it in the bottom section.

Why is this important?
Because the active window determines what is displayed in the Quick View.

If you are familiar with previous versions of Traverse PC, you will remember that everything was sequential. You were in only one screen (window) at any time and you always knew how you got there. You could go from the Survey Screen to the Traverse Screen, to the Closure Screen, back to the Traverse Screen and then to the Quick View. You knew you were in the Traverse Screen Quick View because that's where you came from. You could then go back to the Survey Screen and then to the Quick View to look at the entire survey. Once again, you knew you were in the Survey Screen Quick View because that's where you came from.

Traverse PC Desktop for Windows works the same way. If a Traverse View is the active window and you go to the Quick View, you are in the Traverse View Quick View. If the Survey View is the active window and you go to the Quick View, you are in the Survey View Quick View.

The Traverse View Quick View and the Survey View Quick View

The Traverse View Quick View displays a temporary drawing based only on the data in the Traverse View. It will not display any data from any other traverses. You can identify the Traverse View Quick View by its title bar. The title bar will say Quick View - Traverse Name (Temporary) [note that earlier versions of TPC Desktop for Windows did not include the (Temporary), they only said Quick View - Traverse Name].

The Traverse View Quick View has all of the same drawing tools and options available as the Survey View Quick View does except that you can't save your drawing in the Traverse View Quick View. Because of this, you should only work on drawings in the Survey View Quick View.

The Survey View Quick View displays a drawing based on the traverses that are tagged (tagged traverses have a check mark in a box at the left end of the traverse name). Previous versions of Traverse PC created the Survey Screen Quick View based on which traverses were displayed in the Survey Screen. Traverse PC Desktop for Windows always displays all of the traverses in the Survey View and bases the Survey View Quick View on the tagged traverses. You can identify the Survey View Quick View by its title bar. The title bar will say Quick View - Drawing1, Quick View - Quick View, or Quick View - Your Drawing Name (Drawing1 or Quick View is the default Survey View Quick View drawing name and it will be displayed unless you have opened a different drawing or renamed Drawing1 or Quick View).

The Survey View Quick View allows you to save up to 36 drawings for each survey.