scaleFactor strangeness

[Scott Rossi]

There's a more substantial limitation, Terry: it's not possible to display
objects that remain unaffected by the scaleFactor within a stack that is
changed by the scaleFactor.

What I had envisioned was something along the line of Google maps, where
you have a floating slider overlaid on the map that scales the map up and
down.  Because the scaleFactor affects all contents within the stack
window, any control you include to adjust scaling will itself get scaled,
making this type of control arrangement unusable.  That's why the slider
in the demo is contained in a separate window.  On desktop, you could fake
a "built-in" slider control on top of the map using a custom windowShape,
but obviously that won't work on mobile.

Anyway, if LiveCode isn't able to keep the stack perfectly sized while its
contents are scaled up and down, this direction isn't a good one for
scaling effects.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 10/13/15, 3:41 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd"
<use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

>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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