The Natural Map Editor
Natural map sources (.NSM files) are opened in a graphical map editor comparable to the map editor in NaturalONE. The map is rendered as a character grid that represents the terminal screen. Each field is positioned at a row and column and occupies a number of character cells.
All modifications are applied to the semantic map model maintained by the Natural language server. The language server validates the changes and immediately re-renders the canvas and updates the Map Outline and Map Properties views.
The map editor is accompanied by the following views in the Explorer side bar:
the
Map Outline view, which shows the structure of the map, and
the
Map Properties view, which shows and lets you modify the properties of the map screen and the selected field.
The editing features for Natural maps are described in the topics below.