What are the individual files of the Viewer for?
A typical Viewer is a set of files. Here is what the set would look like for the latest version of the Viewer available on CD or from the MassGIS web site: sav30mg2.apr – the “starter” project. This project sets the environment variables and then opens the main project (av30mg2.apr). This project is only relevant on Windows operating systems. av30mg2.apr – the main ArcView project. On Windows systems, this usually is not to be opened directly, because the environment variables will not have been set. This IS the project to open if you are using a UNIX system (because the environment variables are already set up in the user’s .profile) full.odb – the file that holds the Viewer’s GUI information. This file is created from the CreateGUIs script. themeinv.dbf – the “theme inventory” file – a database file that holds information on themes and their characteristics such as legend, scale dependency, etc. This table populates the “A” button menu choices. zoominv.dbf – the “zoom inventory” file
