For sure, skin a cat, many ways etc etc. FYI my typical usage of a mapping program (windows based, I haven't used Tumonz live other than to try it out) it to do a text search for a location, click on that location so that the map will bring me to that location hopefully at a reasonable zoom level. Then pan around that location. I never find a location by locating it on a big scale then zooming into it so for me zoom is a very rarely used feature.
Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss There are so many ways that the interface could work, the most important thing I wanted to achieve with it was that even if it was different to other programs (inevitable), it would be instantly usable anyway. The mapplet interface uses left and right mouse clicks for zoom in and out respectively. If you click and drag you get rectangular zoom. I figured that this was the most intuitive since the first thing most people will do when faced with a map and no instructions is click roughly where you want to go. Doing this zooms in - animated so you get the context. The overview also gives visual clues as to whats happening. So immediately you get feedback that left click is zoom in. The next thing people will want to do is zoom out and the first thing most people try is the right mouse button. Voila. The decision to use click and drag for rectangle zoom instead of pan was simply so you could zoom in faster rather than click, click, click etc.... The zoom out goes twice as far as the zoom in so even if you never find the panning function (there is a help page, but we know nobody reads it), you have enough tools to easily and quickly move around the map (especially with the Jump-to list). For the more adventurous, there is instant feedback with the cursor if you hold down the Shift key. And then there's the overview too which let's you do all sorts of things, hopefully intuitively. Cheers, Phil. CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorised disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
