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is there a "Zoom" feature in Eclipse? [message #59271]

Mon, 02 June 2003 15:31

Paul E. Keyser

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Registered: July 2009

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WinXp, R2.1

Adobe Acrobat (and MS Word and all sorts of apps) have a "zoom" feature
that lets the user dynamically expand/shrink the size (font-and-all) of
what is being viewed. Is there any affordance like that in Eclipse? I
see Window-> Preferences -> Workspace -> Font (but that requires seven
or so separate tweaks); there's nothing in the faq.html ; and I have
searched this, the eclipse.platform.swt newsgroup, and even the old
deprecated eclipse.tools, all without success.

Some of the statements in the thread "Font Quality: SWT vs MS Word"
suggest that the answer is not only "no" but "not ever" ...

Thanks,
Paul K

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Re: is there a "Zoom" feature in Eclipse? [message #61034 is a reply to message #59271]

Tue, 03 June 2003 17:31

David Saff

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Registered: July 2009

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> Adobe Acrobat (and MS Word and all sorts of apps) have a "zoom" feature
> that lets the user dynamically expand/shrink the size (font-and-all) of
> what is being viewed. Is there any affordance like that in Eclipse?

In general, Word and Acrobat are using a "paper document" metaphor, in
which zooming is somewhat equivalent to holding a piece of paper up
close or far away. Eclipse is using a "text stream" metaphor, which
assumes that all words are the same size, so there's no use in looking
closer to see small details.

I'm curious how you would use a zoom feature. Is it for editing code,
or some other document type?

David Saff

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Re: is there a "Zoom" feature in Eclipse? [message #61347 is a reply to message #61034]

Tue, 03 June 2003 19:23

Paul E. Keyser

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Registered: July 2009

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Well, we are editing XML, but displaying it in Model-centric ways (never as
XML-itself), so our editors have all sorts of widgets, most of which display
text in some way or other (in a swt.widgets.Text or in a Table or in a
Tree). We were hoping ther could be some way to zoom all fonts, so that the
Tree (e.g.), instead of displaying 10 TreeItems (say) when "normal", would
when zoomed by 1.25 show only 8 TreeItems, but each one 1.25 times larger
(bigger font, bigger icon), the panel in which the Tree is found remaining
"of course" the same size on the screen. ILM for Tables and Text and so on.

Paul K

David Saff wrote:

> I'm curious how you would use a zoom feature. Is it for editing code,
> or some other document type?
>
> David Saff

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