Re: Jog feature (Was: Zoom Patch)

[Christian Ridderström <christian ridderstrom gmail com>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Michael Ross wrote:

> 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.

We must have similar backgrounds then... I associated jog with industrial 
robotics, and the behaviour is what I've used in Simulink (which of course 
is similar to LabVIEW).

I think it also works in TGif, but I'm not sure. Anyway, it's really nice 
to be able to use keys to move objects in small increments.

/Christian

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