The Google Earth interface in build 2006112507 provided the ability for C_wiz to launch an instance of Google Earth then, on this instance:
o Overlay C_wiz charts at a user defined translucence.
o Display C_wiz vessel voyage tracks with user defined properties.
o Use GE navigation control to vary view properties.
This was rather primitive, requiring the presence on the screen of 2 "map windows":
o C_wiz Map subsystem so that the user could interact with C_wiz map data to control map related functionality.
o Google Earth so the user could view the results.
With build 2007112515, Google Earth is seamlessly integrated into the C_wiz Map subsystem so only 1 "map window" is required.
At the click of the C_wiz Map subsystem [GEtoggle] menu the Google Earth render window is "toggled in" to the C_wiz Map subsystem or "toggled out" and returned to Google Earth.
When Google Earth is "toggled in", the user can interact with the Google Earth representation of the C_wiz map data inside the C_wiz Map Subsytem in much the same way as before the Google Earth interface existed.
These interactions include the ability to control all mouse actions when the mouse cursor is on the Google Earth render window, for example:
o Read latitude and longitude at the mouse cursor location - a "so what!" bit of functionality that requires some inordinately complex coding and is also the basis for much of the more sophisticated user interactions. Look closely at the above figure - at the bottom is the latitude and longitude of the cursor as known to Google Earth, in the caption at the top is the latitude and longitude as known to C_wiz.
o Double left click to toggle C_wiz chart boxes on (or off).
o Move the mouse cursor over a corner of a C_wiz chart box to highlight the chart box.
o Left click the corner of a chart box while it is highlit to cause the relevant chart to be overlaid on Google Earth.
o Toggle historic vessel track traces on by clicking the C_wiz Map subsystem [traceOn] menu.
o Right click in the vicinity of a historic vessel track trace and cause C_wiz to find the vessel and time that corresponds.
o Double right click to bring up the C_wiz Map subsystem pop-up menu.
o Set an origin from the pop-up menu which results in a "rubber band" distance tool similar to the Google Earth Ruler tool, as per the following figure, noting that the location information in the caption has changed to northing /easting /(direct distance /bearing) from the origin previously established.
o Left click a C_wiz vessel or fixed focal point to launch the focal point's memo.
o Double left click a C_wiz vessel focal point to toggle it in or out of being the "panning vessel". When a "panning vessel" is defined the C_wiz Map subsystem automatically pans to keep the vessel in the viewable area.
o Right click a C_wiz vessel or fixed focal point to launch the focal point editor.
o Double right click a C_wiz vessel or fixed focal point to toggle it in or out of being the origin.
o Hit the F1 key to toggle C_wiz Test Drive on (or off) then observe the mouse tooltip that appears when the mouse cursor hovers anywhere on the Google Earth render window.
As a by-product, it is also possible to have both the C_wiz Map subsystem and Google Earth "map windows" on the screen and interact with the C_wiz map data in either window with appropriate responses simultaneously appearing in both windows.
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