'zoom' in Alpha

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From: Masatsugu Nagata (nagata@KURIMS.KYOTO-U.AC.JP)
Date: 15 Feb 99, 10:47 EST


From: Masatsugu Nagata <nagata@KURIMS.KYOTO-U.AC.JP>
Subject: 'zoom' in Alpha

Herouth Maoz wrote:

> Alpha, too, doesn't exactly have a defined width. The default window width
> is not necessarily where the text ends on line.
>
> In short, "zoom" means "show as much as possible", and so in most cases,
> when the object being shown doesn't have a small well-defined size, this
> simply means "give the user as big an area as possible".
>
Well, in the 'Text' mode and some other modes, the default behaviour
of Alpha is to "Wrap" the line, so that the lines will be all visible
in the window of the $defWidth default width.  So, it makes perfect
sense (at least to me) to zoom the window to $defwidth.  It would not
make sense to me, to zoom the window to the (very wide) fullscreen width,
while the text lines are only 75 characters long under ProFont 9pt.

Anyway, this is all under personal preference, and all dependant to the
user's monitor size.  It would be difficult to choose the default
behaviour that fits the more majority of users, though...  (The decision
is up to the maintainer of 'win.tcl', I guess.  :)

At least, I would again support the idea of renaming 'singlePage' to
'defaultSize'.

Mark
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Mark Nagata
nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp


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