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4.5.6 Using the Zones Editor
The user may use the Zones Editor to define Zone Interval markers and generate
marker occurrences for them. To open the Zones Editor dialog box, on the Tools
menu, click Zones Editor (or click the Zones Editor button on the toolbar):
Zone Interval Markers
Zone Interval marker occurrences indicate the time intervals during which a
Coordinate marker occurrence remains inside a Zone that is defined. The user
may use the Zones Editor dialog box to define the Zones, to search for the times
when the specified Coordinate marker entered and left the defined Zones, and
generate Zone Interval marker occurrences.
Zone Interval markers are Interval markers, but they are extended to store additional
information that defines a Zone. This additional information appears with
the Zone Interval marker definition in the CPJ file. A Zone is an ordered list of
coordinates that are connected with line segments, to form a closed Zone. Zone
Interval marker occurrences are always tied to the values of the occurrence of a
Coordinates marker.
The coordinate system for all Coordinate markers, and therefore also for all Zone
definitions, range from (0,0) to (1023,767), with (0,0) representing the lower left
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