Could be an American colloqialism. To jog is a verb (with no conjugation) applied to machinery in the industrial rather than digital past. You might jog a conveyor belt to get it in just the right position for servicing for instance. It is a good analog for what we are talking about, you poke at a button and you get an incremental action. In this case we would want up/down/left/right and the cursor keys are commonly used to implement this. I use this in the CAD program I useto move tables, text, and views on a drawing. Or in LabVIEW, a graphical programming system, to adjust the position of controls on the GUI and function icons on the block diagram. Jogging ignores any grid or object snapping.
2008/9/4 Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, James McDonald wrote: > > Absolutmente. Jogging is an excellent feature when it is present. >>> >>> >>> Somewhat related, I think it'd be great if it was possible to use >>> the arrow keys to move selected objects (in tiny steps). >>> >>> >> If you implement a jogging feature, it would be great if it had a >> preference to make a jog = 1 pix, mm, cm, pt etc. >> > > Is it called jog feature in general? (I haven't heard this name before). > > I agree that the amount should be configurable. And if snap to grid is on, > that should work as well. > > Maybe this should be added as a feature request? > > regards, > /Christian > > -- > Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 > http://www.md.kth.se/~chr <http://www.md.kth.se/%7Echr> > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > > -- Michael Ross ================================= Cycling in Central North Carolina Schwinn Voyageur 11.8 Linear LWB, Greenspeed GTO, BikeE CT, AT
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