[Xastir] RFD: Centering facility?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:

> This last weekend, I had a need to recenter the display fairly
> often.  So I guesstimated the center, and proceeded accordingly.
> Would it be of some value to have a button that displays the
> center with an icon, then the user could drag it to the desired
> location of the new center?

I guess the mouse-menu centering function isn't adequate?


> As a possible corollary:  Say one has an icons at each endpoint of
> a path.  It would be handy to be able to specify the two icons,
> and zoom the display so as to include the two at opposite edges of
> the display.  Or is there a way to do that already?  I thought
> there was a way to define a subset of the display and have that
> subset zoomed in, but couldn't ferret out the method.

Yea, you click, drag, release using the left mouse button.  It zooms
into the area defined by the box you create.  It's not exact, as it
depends on how your aspect ratio of your window correlates to the
aspect ratio of the box you created.  It tries to make everything in
the box visible in the final result.

There are also the map bookmarks, which you can use to return to the
same map center/zoom.


> BTW, refreshing tigermaps over a cellular modem really sucks.

Same for refreshing a largish window over dial-up.  One of the
reasons I'm such a fan of local maps.

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