Zoom out

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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You might be able to just increase the screen resolution, depending on 
how large the stack is and the capabilities of your hardware.

Or, you could enclose the entire content of the stack in a group and 
add scrollbars (not quite a zoom, but it would let you get at 
everything).

On Feb 20, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> jbv wrote:
>>>
>>> The other option is to write a REALLY complex resizing script that 
>>> can do
>>> all the math for figuring out the aspect ratio of all objects, and 
>>> then
>>> resizing them according to your stack's width and height, and their 
>>> own
>>> location.  If you can handle that then great, but it's one project I 
>>> won't
>>> tackle.
>>>
>> I did something pretty similar : actually I did not resize
>> a stack; there was a "grid" of thumbnails of a certain size
>> (about 200 by 100 pixels each, don't remember the exact
>> figures) arranged in about 80 rows of 5 cols. of course
>> all thumbnails weren't visible altogether on a 1024 x 768
>> pixels stack, and there was a vertical scrollbar on the right to
>> scroll the group of thumbnails.
>> But under certain conditions, end users needed to see the
>> whole group of thumbnails, and in 1 click it was possible
>> to resize the thumbs and rearrange them in a grid of 20 x 20.
>> Some thumbs contained imported images, and others were
>> empty (according to previous actions of the user). Some
>> were also selected (different bordercolor) and others weren't.
>> There were actually 2 grps of objects : 400 images and 400
>> graphics used for "empty" images.
>> Scrolling both grps together, as well as toggling back and forth
>> from 5 * 80 to 20 * 20 were quite easy to do using grps and did
>> execute very fast...
>> So I don't see why such a project should remain out of reach...
>
> Agreed.  While it's tedious it's not atom-splittingly difficult.
>
> The basic method is pretty much how you'd implement it in just about 
> any other language.  _Very few_ authoring/programming tools have that 
> sort of zoom in/zoom out built-in.
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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