ESRI Canada - (K-12) Arcview Graphic User Interface Elements

Go! The Graphic User Interfaces
Go! Graphic User Interface Definitions

If you have followed any of our tutorials, you will have noticed that we use a great deal of ArcView screen captures to illustrate the principles and operations involved. We understand that you, as a teacher, may wish to use graphics like these to enhance your own ArcView GIS exercises. To this end, we have assembled a set of graphics, along with names and descriptions to help you along.

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To download the graphics on the following pages, click your right mouse button on the graphic, and choose "Save Picture As...".

Some of the GUI elements (buttons, tools and menus) are clickable - they lead to the corresponding dialogue boxes!

The GUI elements contained within these pages are based upon ArcView 3.0a in a Windows 95 / NT environment. Graphic User Interfaces may differ with operating system.

General Icons: Buttons, Tools and Menus common to all ArcView Graphic User Interfaces.
The Project GUI: A project is the file in which work you do in ArcView is stored.
The View GUI: A View is an interactive map that lets you display, explore, query and analyze geographic data in ArcView.
The Table GUI: A table lets you work with data from a tabular data source in ArcView.
The Chart GUI: A chart is a visual representation of data in a table, especially attributes of geographic features, that can quickly convey information that would otherwise take a long time to summarize and understand.
The Layout GUI: A layout is a map that lets you display views, charts, tables, imported graphics, and graphic primitives.
The Script GUI: A script is the component of an ArcView project that contains Avenue programming language code.

Graphic User Interface Definitions:

Buttons: This bar located beneath the Menu bar in the ArcView window contains buttons giving you quick access to various controls. Click on a button to choose it. The contents of the button bar change according to what is in the active window.
Tools: This bar located beneath the Button bar in the ArcView window contains various tools you can work with. If you are working on the Project window or on a script, there is no tool bar. You click on a tool to choose it. This will change the cursor to reflect the tool you have chosen. The tool remains selected until you choose another one. The contents of the tool bar change according to what is in the active window.
Menus: This bar along the top of the ArcView window contains ArcView's pulldown menus. To choose a menu choice from a pulldown menu, you can use the mouse or a keyboard shortcut. Some keyboard shortcuts are listed in the menus. Others depend on the graphical user interface (GUI) system you are working with. The contents of the menu bar change according to what is in the active window.
Dialogue Boxes: These smaller windows allow you to input information and change various preferences in ArcView