Hi Agustin, maybe a good idea would be to add an enhancement ticket to the bug tracker with a short list of your ideas and wishes. Otherwise it will probably be forgotten in a few days.
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ Regards, Otto On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:20:22 +0200 Agustin Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: > Not big deal, but in the field would be better moving the cursor > to the approximate place and then zoom and get automatic re-centering. > > In the field, it's better to avoid the mouse (actually, there is often > no mouse > but the hateful pad, cannot believe that hardware engineers have not come > with something better than such an uncomfortable and anti-ergonomic system!) > or just use it for rough positioning. A way to move the cursor (not to > pan) with > the keyboard (i.e. Ctrl+->) would be handy also, perhaps displaying a > cross-hair. > > Maybe we could define different sets of keyboard shortcuts and make sort > of "for in the field" > mode and "for in the office" mode. > > Agus > > Otto Dassau wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:44:41 +0200 > > Agustin Lobo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Otto Dassau wrote: > >> > >> .../... > >> > >>>> One last thought: at least as an option, should not zooming re-center > >>>> the image so that the > >>>> current position defined by the pointer become the new center? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> I think that's how it works. You can somewhere and the new center is also > >>> the zooming center, or do I missunderstand? > >>> > >>> Otto > >>> > >>> > >> If I put my cursor on a clear land mark close to the bottom-left corner > >> and hit the up key, > >> the landmark does not become the new center. Related to this, I recall > >> having seen a way to center to > >> cursor position (and then I could zoom as currently done) , but cannot > >> find it. > >> > > > > with the keyboard you usually pan to your area of interest, so it appears in the > > center of the map window and then zoom in or out. I don't know, but I think the > > feature that you remember does only exist with the mouse, like activating the > > zoom in icon and then clicking on an area somewhere in the map window. > > > > Otto > > > > > >> Agus > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
