27 Jul
2005
27 Jul
'05
4 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:22:24 +0200
Alfons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen(a)alcatel.be> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to clear up my mind as to what conventions to follow
in a GUI for the actions of zooming in and out e.g. a spectrum
or an impulse response window. It's not the intention to launch
a debate about this, just to collect other people's ideas.
The accepted model for scrolling is that the user 'moves'
a *clipbox* that determines what part of the *content* is
visible. For example, when you drag a scrollbar to the right,
the clipbox moves to the right. What actually happens of course
is just the opposite: the clipbox remains static on the screen,
and the content moves to the left.
The other model is used as well, for example Acrobat Reader
lets you drag the content directly.
I like Sweep's use of the mouse wheel (if present) to zoom: roll up
zooms in, roll back, out.
Now my question: what about zooming ? For keyboard
shortcuts,
Ardour uses '+' to zoom out and '-' to zoom in.
On reading this, several words and phrases went through my mind before
finally settling on 'unconventional', or possibly 'unique' :)
+ to zoom in. The thing being increased is magnification, aka zoom (from
roots in photography?)
-
Mike
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