The Point List — edit coordinates and danger zones

The Point List is the panel behind the View and edit graphic’s coordinates button. It is the place to work on a symbol numerically rather than by dragging it, and it is also where two things live that are documented nowhere else: the symbol’s direction, and the Safety Distance Zone controls.

Opening it

Select a symbol on the map, then press View and edit graphic’s coordinates in the main window.

Hint: The button is disabled until a symbol is selected. It stays visible with a working tooltip rather than disappearing, which is why it reads as broken rather than as unavailable. If you lose the selection while the panel is open, the panel closes itself. The same precondition governs the MSS Symbol Editor — see Main window.

The coordinate table

Every point of the selected graphic appears as an editable row. A single-point symbol has one row; a line, an area or a corridor has one per vertex.

  • Coordinates are shown and accepted in whichever format you have configured under Options → Coordinate Settings. Switch the display format and the table re-renders in the new one — you do not have to convert anything by hand.
  • Editing a row and applying it moves the point. This is the way to place a symbol on an exact grid reference rather than by eye, which matters for anything that will be fired at, flown to, or handed to another system.
  • The edit goes onto the undo history. Ctrl + Z reverses it like any other geometry change. See Keyboard shortcuts.

If the application cannot apply what you typed it reports Could not apply the points and leaves the geometry alone — the usual cause is a coordinate that does not parse in the format currently selected.

Direction

Where the selected symbol supports a direction — the MIL-STD-2525 Q modifier, drawn as a direction-of-movement indicator — the Point List exposes it as its own control.

The control only appears when the symbol actually supports that modifier. A symbol that has no direction concept simply does not show it, with no message, so its absence is not a fault.

Safety Distance Zones

For a single-point symbol, the Point List also carries the Safety Distance Zone controls: saved weapon types, ricochet area, vertical hazard and zone colours.

'Safety Distance Zone' ticked in the map.army Point List, showing the zone controls below it

This is a substantial feature in its own right and has its own page — see Safety Distance Zones (SDZ).

Hint: If you found no zone controls, check the tick box first. Until Safety Distance Zone is ticked, it is the only control the section shows — every parameter and action is behind it. The second reason is a multi-point selection: a line, an area or a corridor cannot carry a zone, so for those the section stays empty however you set the box.

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