[GRASS-dev] Vote for your favorite zoom out

[Michael Barton]

> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:35:51 +1300
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Vote for your favorite zoom out
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> This already exists. No need to right click. Just select zoom out tool
>> and click.
> 
> A point I was trying to make is that selecting another tool is slow when
> the task is zooming in & out to get the region "just right". That's why
> I wanted right click zoom-out in addition to the formal zoom out tool.
> Optional keyboard shortcuts to tools sort of help but are impossible to
> remember.
> 

Agreed. If you already know this and meant something else, please just
disregard. What I meant to say is that it's the same tool. Click and drag to
draw a zoom box. Just click and it simply zooms out by a set amount. No need
to change tools.

> 
>> There's no way to restrict such discussion, even if someone wanted to
>> ;-)
> 
> nope, but you can happily ignore the noise & get on with the coding.
> 
> We used to have a system at the shop I used to work in- the last person
> who turned up in the morning got to pick the radio station for the rest
> of the day (the radio was near the coat rack). It worked pretty well.
> 

I like that. Now if I could just get the first person in the lab to make the
coffee....

Cheers
Michael

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Arizona State University

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