Hotspot tipsCC3 allow you to make your drawings interactive. Like an web page, you can define "hotspots" on your drawing that perform designated actions when you click on them with a mouse. A hotspot is a hidden rectangular area in your drawing. Hotspots in the map are "live" if you have Link and Hotsopts are active from Tools > Options checked.
CC3 can create hotspots that contain:
Links to other maps using Link With Map
You can, for example, link maps with adjacent maps or link a city symbol with a city map
Links to files using the Link with File
You can use this command to link any registered file type to a CC3 map. You can for example, create a hotspot that links to an Excel spreadsheet if you have Excel. You can tell if a file type is registered by double clicking on it in Explorer. If an application is launched, then the file type is registered.
Any CC3 command or macro using the Make Hotspot
You could, for example, create a hotspot that hides and shows various layers to create a custom view of a map or put an icon in for another piece of software
Activate any hotspot by clicking on it, or from a macro.
Hotspot tips
Add hotspots to areas that you have already marked in some way, e.g. link to a city map from the cities’ symbol. A symbol catalog called LINKS.FSC with some sample buttons.
Link symbols to other maps, link text in your drawings to text files or other informative files.
If you want your hotspot to work on someone else’s PC, make sure the files you link to are in the same folder as the current drawing, or in a folder below that.
You can make your hotspot relative as well. Use $ to represent the current directory. For example if the hotspot reads "LOADM C:\CC3\TEST.FCW;" edit it to read "LOADM $TEST.FCW"