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User Help

If you want to provide information about your application that users can
readily access, you can develop your own set of Help pages. You can then set
up the map to point to your customized Help system instead of the default
Autodesk MapGuide Viewer Help when users click the Help button or access
Help from the popup menu. For more information, refer to the Autodesk
MapGuide Help.

About the Autodesk MapGuide Viewer API

The Autodesk MapGuide Viewer API allows you to customize the way in
which someone using Autodesk MapGuide Viewer interacts with a map. You
can also create a stand-alone version of the Autodesk MapGuide Viewer that
displays maps without the use of a Web browser.
Autodesk MapGuide Viewer comes in three different types: Autodesk
MapGuide Viewer ActiveX Control, Autodesk MapGuide Viewer Plug-In, and
Autodesk MapGuide Viewer, Java Edition. These Viewer types are sometimes
referred to as Viewer versions within the Help and the documentation. Be
careful to not confuse this usage with Autodesk MapGuide release versions.
Each Autodesk MapGuide Viewer type exposes a programming interface that
you can use to programmatically access and manipulate its functionality.
For example, you could create an application that displays a map in one
frame and a form in another. In the form, you might have controls such as
buttons and list boxes that use API methods to alter or redraw the map. Or,
you might put the map and controls on a single page, as shown in the
following illustration. This application consists of a map, a form listing map
features, and a number of custom image buttons on the HTML page. Users
can select a city from the list box, and then click a button to zoom to that
city.
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