1. Open the Map Control Editor on the Designer tab.
2. Select the area(s) to associate with the code. You can select multiple areas using Ctrl + click.
3. Either right-click and select Assign to Code|variable code or select Shape | Assign to Code | variable code.

4. When you have associated an area with a code, the code appears below the image when the area is selected.

To make the area inactive, click unassign to remove the assigned code from the selected shape.

You can attach the same image codes to multiple areas. This means when any of the areas is clicked or has the mouse go over it, all the areas associated with that code will appear according to the changes you have applied.

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1. Select the area that has the applied format that you want.
2. Click the Format painter button .
3. Click the area you would like to apply the format to. The filter, brightness, contrast and pen settings will all be copied to the selected area.

If you would like to apply the same format to multiple areas, double click the Format painter before you apply it to an area. Click the button again to exit this mode.

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These are available in the Map Control Editor from the Designer tab toolbar and the Shape menu.

Fill		Fill the area with the selected colour.
Color filter		View the picture through a lens of the selected colour.
Grayscale		Change the area from colour to grey.
Invert colors		Reverse the red, green and blue colour in the area.
Blur		Blur the selected area.
Oil painting effect		Speckle the selected area.
Emboss		Make dark patches indented and light patches raised.
Edge detect		Emphasize edges and simplify plain areas.
Clear filters		Remove any of the effects above.
Brightness/ Contrast		Increase or decrease the brightness or contrast of the selected area. This may be combined with any of the filters above.
Pen		Specify the colour and thickness of the area outline, and whether it is displayed. This may be combined with any of the effects above.

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Drawing precisely

To draw more accurately use the Zoom tool on the bar to change your view of the picture.

Changing the shape type

1. Select the area by clicking it.
2. Right-click the area, click Shape Type and select a new shape from the context menu. You can also select the new type from the Shape|Type sub-menu.

Deleting a shape

1. Select the area by clicking it.
2. Right-click the area, click Delete Shape.

Moving the selected area

You can move a selected area by dragging it with the mouse or by moving it with the cursor keys [↑] [↓] [←] [→]. To move a pixel at a time, use the [Ctrl] key with the cursor keys.

Rotating a polygon

You can rotate the polygon when it is complete.

Combining shapes

You can assign more than one area to the same image code. This will have the effect of grouping the areas, and all the areas will be highlighted if the respondent clicks or puts their mouse over one of them.

Using layers

You can create complicated shapes by layering shapes on top of one another. Either by using inactive shapes, or by using grouped shapes (several shapes linked to one code). The topmost shapes are always the ones which are used if a respondent clicks on them. You can change which shape is on top by using the Shape|Bring to front or Shape | Send to back  commands.

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You define the clickable areas of the map control in the Designer tab of the Map Control Editor.

Set the pen style

After loading the map control or image, the default pen style is a 2 pixel wide yellow line.

You can change the pen style, by clicking the Pen icon or selecting Shape | Format | Outline pen. This opens the Edit Outline dialog where you can set the colour and width of the pen style.

Choose the shape

Next, choose the type of shape to draw the outline. You can

• Click the appropriate toolbar button.

• Select the shape from the Tools menu.

If you want to draw several areas of the same shape type, double-click the toolbar shape icon. Click a shape icon again to go back to normal mode.

Define the clickable area

If you are drawing a regular shape, click and drag to create it.

If you are drawing a polygon, click at each point of the shape you wish to create before moving to the next point. Right-click to close the polygon. You can rotate the polygon when it is complete.

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In the Map Control Editor, enter a new percentage value in Size or use the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the size.

The map resizes to the new percentage size. For example, 100% is the default size when the image or map control loads. When the size is set to 50 %, this resizes to 50% of the original size.

Click OK to save the map control.

Use Zoom if you want to see the image in more detail without changing the size of the image in the map control.

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1. In the Map Control Editor, select File | Save map control
2. Browse to the folder location where the map control will be saved.
3. Enter a name to identify the Map Control file.
4. Click Save to save the map control.

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• Snap XMP map control
• image
• HTML image map

Snap Surveys provides a range of rating scales that you can download and use.

Loading an existing Map Control

Snap XMP comes with a number of map control files, including numbers, stars, smileys, and UK and US maps. Your organisation may also have their own map control files, which have been created using the Map Control Editor.

1. Double click the Map Control to open the Map Control Editor.
2. Select File|Load map control.
3. Browse for the saved map control file, which use the file extension ISF.
4. Click Open to load the map control, including the image, formatting and default codes.
5. You can now edit the map control and save it for future use.

Importing an HTML map

If you already have map files that have been created in the HTML format, you can import these, together with the associated image, and then associate the pre-defined areas with variable codes.

1. Double click the Map Control to open the Map Control Editor.
2. Select File|Import HTML map.
3. Browse for the file containing the HTML image map, which use the extensions HTML and HTM.
4. Click Open to load the HTML image map. If there are multiple maps in the file, the Map Control Editor loads the first one.
5. You need to edit the map control by assigning codes and defining the areas to change on selection.
6. You can save this as a Snap XMP map control for future use.

Importing an image

You can create a Map Control using an image with a supported format; jpg, bmp, png or gif.

1. Double click the Map Control to open the Map Control Editor.
2. Select File|Import image.
3. Browse for the image that you wish to use as a basis for your map.
4. Click Open to load the image.
5. You need to edit the map control by assigning codes, formatting and defining the areas to change on selection.
6. You can save this as a Snap XMP map control for future use.

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The Designer tab contains the tools to load and edit a map control or image. The Preview tab lets you test the map control.

First, you need to load a map control or an image into the map control. The image used for the map control can be one of the following:

• Snap XMP map control
• image
• HTML image map

After you have loaded the images into the map control, you are able to

• define clickable areas of the image with different shapes
• change the appearance of an area
• assign areas of the image to the question codes
• define what changes take place in the Map Control when the respondent clicks on an area or puts the mouse cursor over an area
• zoom the map control
• resize the image in the map control
• save the map control for future use

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Snap XMP uses Map Controls to add this feature. With a Map Control each image or part of an image represents a choice. When the respondent clicks on one this highlights the image, showing their response.

You can customise the Map Control by

• defining the areas to click on
• defining how the areas map to the question codes
• setting the type of highlighting

Converting a question to a map control

1. Open the questionnaire in Design mode.
2. Select the single or multi-response question that you wish to convert.
3. Select Show in the toolbar topic list.

4. Select As Map Control in the next list and check the box.

5. The question layout changes to a grey box with the text “Double-click to define Map Control”
6. Click the Map control button on the toolbar or double-click the grey block to open the Map Control Editor window to define your clickable picture.

The codes in the selected question will be loaded into the Map Control Editor so you can associate them with defined areas of the image.

Removing a map control

You can remove a map control from a question.

1. Select your Map Control question.
2. Select the Show toolbar topic.
3. Select As Map Control.
4. Clear the Show box to revert to the original question style.

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Changing the variable codes

1. Click the Variable codes button on the Map Control Editor toolbar to open the Variable codes dialog.
2. Click Add to add a new response code to your question.
3. Type the new code label in the Codes field.
4. Double-click in a field to edit the code label. The triangle changes to a pen when you are in edit mode. Changes made here will affect the variable properties of the map control question.
5. Click OK to save your changes.

Setting the codes to match the Map Control defaults

If you click the Defaults button, all the response codes are set to the defaults code labels for the Map Control. For example, if you have a geographical map, the defaults might be geographical regions. If you do this by mistake, click Cancel to discard your changes.

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1. Select Tools|Options in the Map Control Editor. The Options dialog appears.
2. Set the required options.
   • Show shapes on hover displays the changed areas when the mouse pointer is over them.
   • Show code labels on hover displays the variable code label when the mouse pointer is above the associated area.
   • Select Highlight codes in scale displays all codes up to the one you have selected. For example, if you have a five-star map, checking the third star will highlight the first three stars.
   • Reverse scale reverses the highlight order, so if you have a five-star map, checking the third star will highlight the last three stars.
3. Click OK to apply the changes to the map control.

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