scaleFactor strangeness

[Marty Knapp]

Hey Scott,
It would nice to see this developed more for sure. At this point, I'd 
settle for something even quasi - elegant, just for my users to be able 
to have a magnified view of the screen.

Marty
> Many of us tried to do the same thing when the feature was first
> announced.  Unfortunately, you can't really use it for a zoom effect, at
> least not since I last looked into this.  As you've seen, the stack jumps
> around as the scale is changed, and even if you reposition it dynamically,
> the results aren't the best.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 10/13/15, 12:57 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Marty Knapp"
> <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
> martyknappster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm playing around with scaleFactor on a desktop app as sort of a "zoom
>> view" feature. But there are some weirdnesses about it, especially in
>> terms of screen placement. For example, when the scaleFactor is anything
>> but 1, setting the loc of a stack is way off. Like setting the loc of a
>> stack to the screenLoc does not place it at the center of the screen.
>>
>> It would be nice to be able to scale a window in/out from the topLeft or
> >from the center of the stack too.
>> I tried a few things, but nothing I came up with was very acceptable.
>> Anybody else played with this?
>>
>> Marty K
>>
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