Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
Hi Drew,
But since I'm here now - The answer to your question depends on what you
mean - if you mean the ability to set the zoom factor for a form, via
the API, will no longer exist in 3.2 then I mean it as "not great IMO".
No. In 3.2, you will be able to use View/Zoom, as well as the Zoom
Slider in the status bar, in forms.
The API is completely unaffected.
What you still will not be able to do is to change the zoom of text
documents and forms independently: If you change a text doc zoom, and
close it, the next form will also open with this zoom. (Or however the
inter-document dependency of the zoom setting is defined exactly. For my
taste, there's too much magic involved, it doesn't behave like expected
in 20% or so of all cases ...)
Ciao
Frank
Hi Ciao
To put my two cents in, I have run to this while using OO and I find it
unexpected! I would expect that a zoom level should be part of a
document. I would not and do not expect one document to be affected by
my changing the zoom of another. I would expect if I change the zoom
level of a document and close it , that when I reopen it it would have
the zoom level it had when i closed it.
When I open a document and it has a different zoom than when I last saw
it, I am surprised! Surprise is *not* a good thing in software.
=-O I have spent a lot of time trying to remove the
surprise factor from software.
I would like to see the zoom level be saved with each document and not
as a global variable.
Just my 2 cents
Cliff
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