[Xastir] RFD: Centering facility?

[Gale D. Wilkinson]

Just my two cents worth.  The existing mouse-menu centering function 
works ok, but it can be a pain to guess where the true center of the 
screen is when you just want to move the display up or down a little 
ways to put something at the top of bottom of the screen.  Case in 
point, my primary display has my digi to the left of center and slightly 
above the center line so I can see Sumter as well as an area to the west 
of my location.  I  did get it where I wanted it, but it took several 
tries as I had to guess where the actual center of the screen was when 
trying to guess where to put the mouse.  There is an interstate to the 
nort of me that I wanted to use as the upper border of the screen and it 
was fun trying to guess where the center was to get the highway at the 
very top of the screen without going past the desired location.

     Gale 

Curt, WE7U wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Kurt A. Freiberger wrote:
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>>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?
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>I guess the mouse-menu centering function isn't adequate?
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>>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.
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>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.
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>There are also the map bookmarks, which you can use to return to the
>same map center/zoom.
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>>BTW, refreshing tigermaps over a cellular modem really sucks.
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>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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>Curt, WE7U			    archer at eskimo dot com
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