peter sikking writes: > what I am asking myself is 'does this thing need to be circular?
XEphem has a magnifier in some of its views, like the moon view. It's just a square with a yellow border, and you can drag the mouse around and magnify different parts of the image in real time. http://shallowsky.com/tmp/xephem-moon-view.jpg I don't find it very useful in xephem because there's not enough detail to be worth magnifying, but I'd love a quick way in GIMP of saying "Show me what this small region looks like at full size, even though the image window is zoomed out at 33%." In GIMP, as Sven already said, you can get more useful information than a mere screen magnifier could give. I think that might be a different use case from what's being discussed here, though, because seeing a brush cursor doesn't make much sense in this model. I'd be moving the mouse around to select what area gets zoomed, not to paint or do other operations. If I want to see both zoomed and normal views while I'm actually painting, opening a second view works fine for me. Chris Mohler writes: > I'm not sure whether it would be best to implement it as a pop-up as > suggested, or as a dialog. I'd probably vote for some type of toggle > on the existing navigation window, or a new dialog similar to the nav > window. I would probably find the pop-up annoying after a time. I'd use a popup but I wouldn't use a dialog. If it was a dialog that I had to position on the screen and dismiss later, I'd just as soon open a new view and zoom it. Especially if there were other preliminary steps, like the select-a-region step Peter described. -- ...Akkana "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional": http://gimpbook.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
