Map Views

[Ivor]

Hopefully somebody can advise. I have a 15" screen laptop. The Detailed Map opens perfectly to fill the screen and all the smaller maps open as overlays above the Detailed Map. However, I cannot get the Main Form to overlay the Detailed Map, and it is the most critical to have access to all the time. Currently, I have to either minimise the Detailed Map (no good - as I need to see unit details when I click on them on the map), or pull down the top edge of the Detailed Map to place the top below the Main Form. This is not ideal as it reduces the map by a large degree and leaves dead space in the top right (or left) corner alongside the Main Form. How can I get the Main Form to overlay the Detailed Map?

[paulderynck]

AFAIK, you cannot. You'll have to reduce the size of the Detailed map. When you resize windows and determine where they best can go for your screen size, you use Screen Layout to save all those window dimensions. Map views may be created on the fly (in addition to those supplied) on a per country basis and may be useful, but on a single small screen, a lot of map view choices can cover too much of the screen and keep popping over it, which can be annoying.

Better to create a few highly thought out ones and deletee the rest, when you don't have the real estate.

Below is a sample of a screen layout you could create and use, considering the amount of screen you have available. Note the main form is offset to the right so that the temporary pop-ups for selectable air or land units don't interfere with it. Then the Screen Layout and Map View windows have a place to be as well, if kept small.

[Centuur]

In my screen layout, I've included the Global map. You can use your mouse to go to the global map and click on it. I don't use Map Views, but move quickly by using the Global map instead.