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posted: 7 Mar 2009 11:18 from: Alan Turner
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Thinking about user preferences leads me to ask if a quirk of Templot could be looked at and improved please? When I import a background picture, a map say, I don't always bother with calculating the scale. I adjust the picture by using the scale and shift options. However if the picture gets too big, that requires me to zoom, I have to close the Background shape box, zoom, open the background box and start again. Any chance it could allow zooming without the need to close the background box? I will probably be told now that I have missed something and I can do this all along! Alan |
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posted: 7 Mar 2009 12:36 from: Martin Wynne
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Alan Turner wrote: Any chance it could allow zooming without the need to close the background box?Hi Alan, You can't zoom on the workpad without shifting focus to it, which inevitably means it will come to the front. You could re-size the workpad window so that it doesn't obscure the background shapes window in the process, but that is really only practical if you have multiple monitors. (Zooming the workpad also cancels any mouse action in force, because a change of zoom means the mouse action response setting must be changed.) But you don't have to close the background shapes. Click on the workpad title bar at the top of the screen. That will shift focus to the workpad and you can then zoom or do anything else. (Clicking the workpad area instead of the title bar sets a position on the pad for the background shapes functions.) Then to restart the previous shape mouse action, press BACKSPACE. When you complete the mouse action, the background shapes window will re-appear. If it doesn't, press CTRL+S (Templot menu shortcut) or ALT+F6 a few times (standard Windows shortcut to swap windows). regards, Martin. |
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