Display Quality

The Display Quality tab is used to specify various display options in ArcPad that control the display quality as well as the display performance. Greeking can be activated or deactivated for point, polyline, polygon, and multi point features.

Greeking is a method for simplified drawing of features using fewer pixels, resulting in faster drawing performance. Greeking thresholds are used to control this simplified drawing. Features that require fewer pixels to draw than the specified threshold are drawn using simplified symbology. Further information on greeking thresholds is available in the ArcPad Studio Help.

The QuickDraw coarseness slide bar enables the user to control the resolution that is used during Quick Draw mode.

Point Greeking

When checked, ArcPad uses greeking thresholds to draw point features. When unchecked, ArcPad draws the features using the symbology described in the layer definition file (.apl).

The default is checked.

Polyline Greeking

When checked, ArcPad uses greeking thresholds to draw polyline features. When unchecked, ArcPad draws the features using the symbology described in the layer definition file (.apl).

The default is checked.

Polygon Greeking

When checked, ArcPad uses greeking thresholds to draw polygon features. When unchecked, ArcPad draws the features using the symbology described in the layer definition file (.apl).

The default is checked.

Multi Point Greeking

When checked, ArcPad uses greeking thresholds to draw multi point features. When unchecked, ArcPad draws the features using the symbology described in the layer definition file (.apl).

The default is checked.

Quick Draw Coarseness

Left most on the scale is 'normal detail'. If the slide bar is moved all the way to the left, no change in resolution will be seen when QuickDraw is selected. This can still be of use, as you may have set specific layers to be not visible during Quick Draw mode - the net effect being that the QuickDraw toggle is a quick way to turn off some of your layers (without degrading map resolution).

Each step to the right of the slide bar changes the detail of the map. One step to the right shows the map at ½ the resolution, the second step shows ¼ resolution, and the third step shows 1/16 resolution etc. As you move the slide bar to the right, the map resolution will become more coarse.

Each step reduces the memory requirements for the drawing of your map.