[GRASS-dev] Re: Behavior of explore mode in GIS Manager

[Michael Barton]

Hi Cedric,

I figured that you intended it to be this way, but wanted to make sure that
others understood it as well. Most of the concern about this was obviated
when we decoupled the display region settings from the 'computational'
region settings.

Cheers
Michael


On 1/2/07 9:21 AM, "Cedric Shock" <cedricgrass at shockfamily.net> wrote:

> Michael,
> 
>> Essentially, it is changing so that a constant number of grid cells are
>> represented in the display window.
> 
>> Is this the way we want zooming to work in this special mode? If so, we
>> need to change the mouse over help to make sure this is clear. If not, we
>> need to change how explore mode works so that it does not change
>> resolution. I can see advantages and disadvantages of each.
> 
> This was very deliberate. Explore mode does two things:
> 
> Makes the region displayed fill the window and
> Makes the region one cell per pixel on the display device.
> 
> The solution is more documentation or ...
> 
> I actually considered two separate toggle buttons when I designed this, one
> for filling the screen and one for automatic resolution changes. Another
> interesting behaviour is the one you described, "a constant number of grid
> cells are represented in the display window", but it is slightly less obvious
> how to use.
> 
> --Cedric

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