Re: [udig-devel] Zoom Functionality

[Andrea Aime <andrea.aime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alle 23:00, domenica 17 ottobre 2004, Paul Ramsey ha scritto:
> So far we have two negative responses to our most excellent attempt at
> breaking out of the dominant zoom box paradigm. I am not prepared to
> give up yet (until Andrea rips me a new one) but we should probably
> start a preferences panel where various aspects of behavior can be
> customized. The zoom box behavior will have to be one of those things.
> Caching and performance strategy might also expose themselves there.

Paul, simply put, I can't control the zoom tool, the results are completely 
unexpected. Now, I see where you're heading to, having something that
allows you to center the new view where you want first, and decide
about its size later. I think it should be a nice thing to have, but maybe
something to have when you're pressing some key while zooming (CTRL., 
SHIFT, whatever).... it's just that I've never used something that worked
like this, so my first thougth was that it was broken.

Yet, the zoom tool is not the thing that worries me most, nor the performance:
it's the registry. Why I see all of the shapefiles in a flat list? This is a 
bit nonsense to me, because I'm used to see folders with tens to hundreds
shapefiles in it, possibily with multiple versions of the same files in 
different states held into different subfolders. If I understand it right (I 
hope not) and every file gets listed as a flat list, this would soon become
a bit of a mess.

Also, I'm not sure about it, but I hope the registry contents are per-project,
since different projects may have to work with very different set of files.
Some of the registry contents may be general enough to be always there,
but as a user I would not be happy to see all of my datastores and shapefiles
always there. Just my opinion ;-)

Best regards
Andrea Aime