[Qgis-user] Ctrl ++

[Gerry Creager]

Augustin,

Please do: I agree with your comments and ideas.
gerry

Otto Dassau wrote:
> Hi Agustin, 
> 
> maybe a good idea would be to add an enhancement ticket to the bug tracker with
> a short list of your ideas and wishes. Otherwise it will probably be forgotten
> in a few days.
> 
> https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/
> 
> Regards,
>  Otto
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:20:22 +0200
> Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Not big deal, but in the field would be better moving the cursor
>> to the approximate place and then zoom and get automatic re-centering.
>>
>> In the field, it's better to avoid the mouse (actually, there is often 
>> no mouse
>> but the hateful pad, cannot believe that hardware engineers have not come
>> with something better than such an uncomfortable and anti-ergonomic system!)
>> or just use it for rough positioning. A way to move the cursor (not to 
>> pan) with
>> the keyboard (i.e. Ctrl+->) would be handy also, perhaps displaying a 
>> cross-hair.
>>
>> Maybe we could define different sets of keyboard shortcuts and make sort 
>> of "for in the field"
>> mode and "for in the office" mode.
>>
>> Agus
>>
>> Otto Dassau wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:44:41 +0200
>>> Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>> Otto Dassau wrote:
>>>>
>>>> .../...
>>>>     
>>>>>> One last thought: at least as an option, should not zooming re-center 
>>>>>> the image so that the
>>>>>> current position defined by the pointer become the new center?
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>> I think that's how it works. You can somewhere and the new center is also
>>>>> the zooming center, or do I missunderstand?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Otto
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>> If I put my cursor on a clear land mark close to the bottom-left corner 
>>>> and hit the up key,
>>>> the landmark does not become the new center. Related to this, I recall 
>>>> having seen a way to center to
>>>> cursor position (and then I could zoom as currently done) , but cannot 
>>>> find it.
>>>>     
>>> with the keyboard you usually pan to your area of interest, so it appears in
> the
>>> center of the map window and then zoom in or out. I don't know, but I think
> the
>>> feature that you remember does only exist with the mouse, like activating
> the
>>> zoom in icon and then clicking on an area somewhere in the map window. 
>>>
>>>  Otto
>>>
>>>   
>>>> Agus
>>>>     
>>>   
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