Re: fplan-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3

["Edward A. Falk" <falk efalk org>]

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> I've been playing around with xfplan a bit, and find that generally 
> speaking it works quite well.  The zoom capability was giving me 
> grief, but I finally figured out what is going on.
> 
> Maybe you already know all of this, or maybe this is a bug that you 
> haven't stumbled across yet:
> 
> The zoom works fine, if you have the mouse over the map, and you 
> either use the scroll wheel, or use the Ctrl+= or Ctrl+-.  It zooms 
> around the mouse location, which makes good sense.  But, if you zoom 
> by clicking on the Zoom In or Zoom Out buttons, the zoom still occurs 
> centered around the mouse location, even though the mouse is now off 
> the top of the map.  This is very confusing to the user.

Yah, it's *supposed* to zoom around the center of the map if the cursor
is off the map.  I'll take a look at it.  I plan to work on the
program a little bit tommorrow.


> I really like this program, and think it has a lot of potential.  I 
> am not a programmer, and I already have too much on my plate this 
> year to try to learn C.  But, once I get my homebuilt aircraft 
> flying, I might be tempted to try to learn some C so I could do more 
> than just testing.  But that won't happen this year.

Cool, what are you building?  I toyed with building a homebuilt
once, but realized that I just don't have the discipline to finish
anything (like xfplan).

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