Re: fplan-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3

"Edward A. Falk" <[email protected]> Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:10:45 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.fplan
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> I've been playing around with xfplan a bit, and find that generally=20
> speaking it works quite well.  The zoom capability was giving me=20
> grief, but I finally figured out what is going on.
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> Maybe you already know all of this, or maybe this is a bug that you=20
> haven't stumbled across yet:
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> The zoom works fine, if you have the mouse over the map, and you=20
> either use the scroll wheel, or use the Ctrl+=3D or Ctrl+-.  It zooms=20
> around the mouse location, which makes good sense.  But, if you zoom=20
> by clicking on the Zoom In or Zoom Out buttons, the zoom still occurs=20
> centered around the mouse location, even though the mouse is now off=20
> the top of the map.  This is very confusing to the user.

Yah, it's *supposed* to zoom around the center of the map if the cursor
is off the map.  I'll take a look at it.  I plan to work on the
program a little bit tommorrow.


> I really like this program, and think it has a lot of potential.  I=20
> am not a programmer, and I already have too much on my plate this=20
> year to try to learn C.  But, once I get my homebuilt aircraft=20
> flying, I might be tempted to try to learn some C so I could do more=20
> than just testing.  But that won't happen this year.

Cool, what are you building?  I toyed with building a homebuilt
once, but realized that I just don't have the discipline to finish
anything (like xfplan).

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