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?

Don A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   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.

Is this on a laptop, with a touch-mouse pad?  As you get near the edges of
that mouse pad, other effects are turned on.  Or if you have a wheel mouse,
maybe you've gone into autoscroll mode.  I can't get that to trigger while
in SA, but I don't really use that mode, and I usually find myself in it,
rather than invoking it deliberately.


>   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.

I found this hard to get used to coming from that other mapping program ;-)

click-drag "down the stairs" to the lower right will draw a box, and zoom
to the box that you've drawn.
click-drag "up the stairs" toward the upper left doesn't draw a box.  It
zooms out...  possibly quite a ways, if you think you are dragging a box.

The hand only shows up when you are near the edge of the screen.
Otherwise click-drag is the zoom tool.  Maybe you think you have a hand
when you actually have the crosshair center/zoom tool.

I can't get that to zoom out far enough to show Hawaii and Washington,
though.  


>   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.

Tapping on the center of the earth returns you to the previous view...
Is it possible that the previous view is the HI-DC view?





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