On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:30 +0200, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
>
> When playing around with some zoomable canvas prototypes using cairo
> earlier, I created a canvas container element that acted as a switch.
> At one zoom level it was showing one set of children, and when zoomed
> beyond a defined threshold it alternate children were shown.
>
> This way of doing things allows a progressive revealing of the interface:
>
> Tiny icon ->
> Icon ->
> Icon with text ->
> Tiny icon with label as title with basic controls ->
> Tiny icon with label as title with basic controls and advanced controls ->
> All of the above with additional debug information ;-]
>
> One further extension to make this more usable (apart from excessive
> use) would be to allow defining transitions between the two sets of
> children.
At some level this is perfectly fine, however when you start to change
the geometry (i.e. the size, position and number of canvas items) things
get really hairy. In a design where you can have multiple views of one
canvas you suddenly get different canvas layouts depending on what view
you look at.
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