[GRASS-dev] Re: gis.m zooming: 2 new bugs

[Michael Barton]

Moritz is correct. AFAICT from the animation (which is quite helpful, by the
way), the zoom out box is working exactly as it should. The region is
"shrinking" to fit in the box. Given the zooming situation, the result looks
weird.

Michael
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> From: Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:15:24 +0200
> To: Maciej Sieczka <tutey at o2.pl>
> Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, grass-dev
> <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: gis.m zooming: 2 new bugs
> 
> Maciej Sieczka wrote:
>> I can reproduce your test and indeed it's all perfect. But, watch
>> another 2 swfs of mine to see under what circumstances it fails:
>> 
>> http://kufaya.googlepages.com/area_zoom-out_bug_horizontal.html
>> http://kufaya.googlepages.com/area_zoom-out_bug_vertical.html
>> 
>> This looks wrong to me. What do you think?
> 
> Well, this is not really using the zoom-out box the way it should be: in
> zoom-out mode, you draw a box to show at which size you would like the
> currently displayed portion to be after zooming. So if you draw a box
> which is larger then the currently displayed portion, you actually are
> zooming in...
> 
> So, in my eyes this is not really a bug, but maybe there could be a
> check and a warning: "WARNING: your zoom-out box cannot be larger than
> the currently displayed region" or something like this.
> 
> Moritz