Could be an American colloqialism. To jog is a verb (with no conjugation) applied to machinery in the industrial rather than digital past. You might jog a conveyor belt to get it in just the right position for servicing for instance. It is a good analog for what we are talking about, you poke at a button and you get an incremental action. In this case we would want up/down/left/right and the cursor keys are commonly used to implement this. I use this in the CAD program I useto move tables, text, and views on a drawing. Or in LabVIEW, a graphical programming system, to adjust the position of controls on the GUI and function icons on the block diagram. Jogging ignores any grid or object snapping.
2008/9/4 Christian Ridderstr�m <christian ridderstrom gmail com <mailto:christian ridderstrom gmail com>>
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, James McDonald wrote:
Absolutmente. Jogging is an excellent feature when it is
present.
Somewhat related, I think it'd be great if it was
possible to use
the arrow keys to move selected objects (in tiny steps).
If you implement a jogging feature, it would be great if it
had a preference to make a jog = 1 pix, mm, cm, pt etc.
Is it called jog feature in general? (I haven't heard this name
before).
I agree that the amount should be configurable. And if snap to
grid is on, that should work as well.
Maybe this should be added as a feature request?
regards,
/Christian
-- Christian Ridderstr�m, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr <http://www.md.kth.se/%7Echr>
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