ChartScale
1. What and Why
2. Installation
A. Where to get this plugin
The github repository is:
ChartScale-pi for Windows can be downloaded from this location:
[https://github.com/rgleason/chartscale_pi/releases|Chartscale
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Click on the most recent to download.
B. How to install this plugin
Double-click the downloaded file (with “chartscale_pi” in the name and
“.exe” as extension) and follow the set-up instructions.
That’s it.
Open (or restart) OpenCPN.
Click Tools-Options-Plugins
Scroll down untill you see the ChartScale-pi.
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Click “Enable” to enable the plugin and then “Preferences” to set your preferences (should be self-explanatory).
Click “OK” in the Chart Scale Preferences window and then “OK” in
the Plugins-window.
Now the Chart Scale slider should appear on your screen.
In this example the slider-button is to the far left. That means “zoom in as far as possible”.
And in this example the slider-button is to the far right. That means “zoom out as far as possible”.
3. Standard Actions
What are basic (standard) actions you have to do to make ChartScale-pi work.
Well, that is quite simple. Click on the slider-bar. Click left of the slider-button to zoom in…
And click right of the slider-button to zoom out.
Click “Last” to zoom back to the zoom-factor that was last used.