Re: Feature report - SA2004 - And just why does it keep zooming out to a scale where I can see Honolulu & Washington DC on the same page?

"BeamGuy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Title says it all... I'm not even sure why it is doing this... I think I
was using the little hand to pan the map around, then
> WAHOO! And now I'm left to zoom in again which takes about 10 mouse clicks
to get back where I was before...
>
> This seems to happen once in awhile - one zoom out gets me a view of the
whole country!
>
> It is much more controlled than when I had the microphone turned on - then
with no one speaking it would do all sorts of crazy
> stuff!
>
>

This may not be your answer, but here are a couple of items to consider.

  a]  Zooming from a local area to "Hawaii - Washington D.C" can be done by
holding the left button down [ While the mouse is in the main window ] and
twiddling the mouse wheel.  it is easy to do by error.

  b] Another way is hold the left button down for a second of so [ in the
main window ] and a set of stair treads will appear on the map.  Just scroll
up the stairs and quit scrolling when you are at the enlargement scale you
want.  You will see the scale as you scroll up the map.

Both items "a" & "b" above need to give focus to the main window, by putting
the mouse in the window when you start.

  c] Instead of trying to return to where you were, by many many mouse taps
on the scale bar at the upper right, try tapping on the center of the earth
near the top right.  You can keep going back to the last DISPLAY by tapping
on the earth center.  I forgot how many "Undos" you can do, but it is a BIG
bunch.

...don