Re: Jog feature (Was: Zoom Patch)

["Michael Ross" <michael e ross gmail com>]

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 Ridderström <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

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