> Actually it is already a floating point number (has been for a long > time), it's just that it's still a power of 2 (non-integer power of > 2 is fine). Thus a zoom of -1.24378 is just fine.
I was talking about the syntax for the XtAction, but now I see that you can specify floats there too. Log2 - ick. Why can't zoom factors be specified as a multiplier? > I haven't loaded Bill's GTK version yet, but I'm very excited about > it. I can't tell you the hours I've wasted trying to implement > simple things becasue the GUI kit was so rudimentary. Even a switch to Lesstif, which fits into the same framework as Xaw, would have fixed most of those problems. It's not widgets that are the problem, it's Xaw.
