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DAoC MapScroller Instructions
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**NOTE**
If you have downloaded this tool via the zip file to use locally,
it does not need a web server to run; it can 'run' anywhere you
choose to put it -- no installation is required.

To launch your local copy, just double-click 'daocmapscroller.html'


**NOTE 2**
When you first load a realm, only zone captions are turned on.
See below for how to turn other types of captions on.



Navigate the map using:
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Click.......................Zoom in to the clicked location
or +                        Zoom in on the center of the screen
                            (really just = without the shift key)

Right-Click.................Zoom out (centered on the clicked location)
or Shift-Click              (shift-click better for Mozilla)
or -                        Zoom out on the center of the screen


Arrow Keys..................Begin the map auto-panning in that direction
Shift+Arrow Keys            Additional presses increase panning speed
                            Holding down shift is equiv to 6 key taps
                            
Esc.........................Immediately stop map from panning
or Space Bar

Page Up/Down................Jump the map up/down a single time
Shift+Page Up/Down          Use shift to jump left/right

MouseWheel..................Scroll the map up/down (IE6 Windows only)
Shift+MouseWheel            Use shift to scroll left/right

N...........................Toggle All Captions on/off
T or K......................Town/Keep/Dungeon Captions on/off
M...........................Mob (named and normal) Captions on/off
Z...........................Zone Captions on/off
G...........................Geography Captions on/off
S...........................Turn shadows for the captions on/off (IEWin only)

I or L......................Toggle Zone/Loc info in the status bar

U...........................Generate URL for current zoom level/location

?...........................Show this help page

*CONTRIBUTE CAPTIONS VIA THE WEB*
Ctrl+Shift+Click............Brings up a window allowing you to submit a
of Alt+Shift+Click          caption for the clicked location. You must have
                            a 'net connection for this to work, and you must
                            be zoomed in far enough that you can see the
                            gridlines on the map.




Whom do I contact/pay for this:
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Direct comments/questions to gavin@refinery.com

Although this tool is being provided free of charge, it took and continues
to take substantial development time and bandwidth. If you are so inclined,
I'd be more than happy to receive PayPal donations to the above email address.



FAQ:
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Q: HEY! Why is this connecting to the internet when I run it locally? What
   are you doing to my computer?

A: HEY! :) Because the captions file is being updated frequently, I realized
   that I could let it first try and use your local one and then, if you
   have a 'net connection, use the latest from my website. Local but updated
   via a 20k JS download...what could be better?!

   If it is causing you problems, open up each realm HTML (e.g. "albion.html")
   and delete the line at the top which looks like this:
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://phrogz.net/daocmapscroller/captions.js"></script>
   It will continue to work just fine, but you will be stuck with whatever
   captions you have on your computer.



Known Bugs:
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This has been tested on IE6 and Mozilla 1.2.1 for Windows, and also on 
Chimera 0.60 (a flavor of Mozilla) for MacOS X. The known bugs are:

Mozilla     Doesn't support text shadows (not really a bug)

            Clicking seems to zoom in on a spot to the upper-left of the
            spot...don't know why yet. Just click below and to the right of
            the desired zoom location, or pan around once you're zoomed in.

            Pressing the space bar (to stop auto-panning) causes Mozilla to
            scroll down a page before stopping it and also messing up both
            Show Info and caption placement. Use ESC instead.
            
            Mozilla's (normally nifty) Type Ahead Find feature causes it to
            beep a lot as you press keys to control the labels. Sorry about
            that, Mozilla users. See
            http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/typeaheadfind.html
            for information on how to disable it.

IE6Win      No known bugs.

IE5.5Win    Some users have reported that the application crashes upon
            loading, due to the text shadows. If this happens for you, please
            let me know and I'll give you a fix to disable the shadows.