scaleFactor strangeness

[Terry Judd]

Good demo Scott. It doesn¹t look so bad if you set the stack¹s fullscreen
property to true but that¹s probably not that useful on desktops.

Terry...

On 14/10/2015 9:17 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Scott Rossi"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

>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
>>>>
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>>Best regards,
>>Marty Knapp
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