Custom Legend

Instructions for use

The creation of the conventional legend is based on the layer element, and the layer element symbol is arranged and displayed, and the legend form is single; For many Themtic Types, when it is necessary to express the continuous color band in the Graudated Colors Map and the Graduated Symbols in the Unique-values Map as the legend, Users often draw multiple objects, move and arrange them, and adjust the color of color blocks separately.

SuperMap iDesktopX provides the function of creating Custom Legend. Using Custom Legend, you can easily make continuous filling, linearity, symbols and other special legends, reducing the tedious operation of drawing Custom Legend.

can be set through Choose Color Scheme, custom color and other methods.
creating Legend, you can preview the legend style in real time. What you see is what you get. You can modify the legend style conveniently and quickly.
Rich legend styles, suitable for different map scene requirements.

Function entrance

In Map: Click Map tab-& gt Drawing group-& gt Map Decoration-& gt Custom Legend.
In Layout: Click Object Operation tab-& gt Object Drawing group-& gt Legend Drop-down Button-& gt Custom Legend.

Operating instructions

Drawing legend position: the mouse changes to the drawing status in the current Map. Click and drag the mouse to draw the width and height of the legend to determine the position of the legend.
Set Legend Color: In the Settings dialog, you can define the legend color in three ways.
- Choose Color Scheme ribbon as legend ribbon: Click the Color Scheme button and select a Color Scheme from the drop-down menu. By default, the system will automatically add the color in the Color Scheme to the color list.
- Select Layer Band as Legend Band: Click the Select Layer button. In the Select dialog, you can specify the thematic map layer or Raster Layer in Current Map. Note: Thematic map layers only support line layers or surface layers.
- Custom color as legend color band: Click the Choose Color button and the system Default Color is automatically added to the color list.
Legend editing: It supports operations such as deleting, editing, importing, and exporting colors in the color list area.
- Edit Color: If you need to edit the added color, click the color band to be edited in the list, and select the required color in the pop-up color panel.
- Delete Sub Item: To delete an existing color block, select the sub item in the list area and click Delete Sub Item in the menu under the Delete button to remove the unwanted color block.
- Delete Tag: To delete an existing tag, select the subitem in the list area and click Delete Tag in the menu under the Delete button to remove the unwanted tag.
- Import/Export: Click the Import/ Export button to import the Parameter Settings of the existing legend information file (*.txt) into the corresponding parameters of the current Custom Legend through the import function, so as to quickly reference the existing legend style; The export function can export the set legend style as a *.txt file for quick reference when using the same legend again.
- Title: Each Color Settings label can be used in the color list, and the label will indicate the meaning of the color.
Parameter Settings
- Legend Style: The program currently provides five legend styles, namely Fill, Symbol, Line, Continuous, and Filling at Equal Distance.
  - Fill: Generate separate fill color blocks according to the key colors in the color list, arrange them in turn, and generate the fill legend. There is a border between the colors.
  - Symbol: Draw circular symbols that change uniformly in equal proportion according to the key colors in the color list.
  - Linetype: Draw linetype symbols that change uniformly in equal proportion according to the key colors in the color list.
  - Continuous: Connect End-to-End according to the key color in the color list to generate a continuous gradient legend, with no transition between colors.
  - Filling at Equal Distance: According to the key color in the color list, the filling color blocks evenly distributed in the middle of the two tips are generated and arranged in turn.
- Shape of both ends: three shapes of flat end, round end and pointed end are supported.
- Display Direction: Support setting of Landscape and Portrait display directions.
- Legend Title: used to set the legend name. Click the Style.. button on the right to Setting the title the Font style.
Show Lable: Set whether to Display Legend label, and the Text Style Settings panel can modify the display style of the label.
- Label Display Mode: Two modes of All Labels and First Label are supported. Customize the tag position with the Delete Tag button.
- Text Style: supports the modification of the Text Style of the label. For the specific setting method, please refer to: Modify the Style tab Setting Method of Text Style of the Uniform Label thematic map. Wherein, Alignment of label and color block:
  - Fill, Symbol, Linetype, Continuous Text Labels The default Alignment is anchor bottom-middle.
  - The weather text label is aligned with the lower-left Anchor Alignment.
- Offset: Used to set how much the anchor point of the label object is offset from the interior point of the object it labels.

Application example

In SuperMap Sample Data SampleData-& > ThematicMap-& > Weather-& > For the global sea surface temperature thematic map of January 2008 in the Sea-Surface Temperature data, select the temperature thematic map layer to create a custom filling legend through the Custom Legend function, and the effect shown in the following figure is obtained.

Figure: Thematic map