RE: Zooming what ?

[Ian Epperson <Ian axiomdesign com>]

The Visio zoom tool would zoom on wherever your mouse was pointing.  Very
nice to be able to (ctrl-wheeldown) zoom out, point to a region
(ctrl-wheelup) zoom into somewhere else.  No panning needed.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Horkan [mailto:horkana maths tcd ie] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:05 PM
> To: dia-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Zooming what ?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:21:59 +0200
> > From: Krzysztof Foltman <kfoltman onet pl>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Zooming what ?
> >
> > Another idea, inspired by working ctrl+scroll patch:
> >
> > Change Zoom tool so that it preserves a zoom point.
> >
> > I mean: now, when you zoom in a graph by clicking a zoom tool or
> > ctrl+wheel, the graph point at screen location of the cursor is
> > displayed at window's center point.
>
> So if i get this right when you are using the Magnify/Zoom 
> Tool and you
> point it somewhere on a document and click.  The Zoom centres 
> on the point
> you just clicked on instead of just zooming to the centre of where the
> previous View.
>
> > Alan (which I discussed the idea with) also suggested to make zoom
> > center on selected objects - maybe that would make sense 
> for non-tool
> > zooming (the option button one).
>
> Yes this would make most sense for non tool Zooming such as zooming by
> using the keybindings or zoooming using the scroll wheel.
>
> > Any suggestions ?
>
> - Alan
>
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