scaleFactor strangeness

[Marty Knapp]

Thanks Scott - I'll take a look.

Marty
> Believe me, Marty, that was the first thing I asked about.  I sent them a
> demo stack that illustrated the limitations of the effect, but they said
> they couldn't make the behavior work the way I (and you) want.
>
> You can try the demo stack via your message box:
> go url "http://tactilemedia.com/download/WindowScalingExample.livecode"
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 10/13/15, 3:01 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Marty Knapp"
> <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
> martyknappster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>