- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:05:15 +0100
- To: Emmanuel Pietriga <emmanuel.pietriga@xrce.xerox.com>
- CC: www-isaviz@w3.org
Emmanuel, I understand what you say, and moving around is obviously a way. But think at editing any graphics with an editor, like, say Adobe Illustrator. I can do both there: I can pan but I can also zoom in vis-a-vis my default, start up view. I do not really understand why you consider this as a difficulty... I. Monday, March 25, 2002, 10:08:59, you wrote: EP> I think I am beginning to understand. But I am not sure :) EP> I think the problem is that you constrain yourself by putting those EP> 20-30 resources only in the region visible at the beginning, whereas you EP> have a potentially infinite space at your disposal. EP> What I suggest is : put less resources in this region. This way you'll EP> get more "breathing space" for labels and all the stuff. When you have EP> say 10 resources on screen at the max level of magnification, then move EP> the camera slightly (for instance to the right), you'll then see empty EP> space in which you can put more resources without creating a cluttered EP> representation. EP> It is the same as working with a worksapce with scrollbars. When there EP> are too much things in the region, you use the scrollbars to go to EP> another (empty) region of the workspace where you can put new stuff. EP> here we don't have scrollbars because the workspace is infinite, so it EP> wouldn't make sense. But moving the camera does the same thing. EP> I'm not sure I'm making any sense here... Maybe it is fairly obvious and EP> I'm not actually addressing your real problem. It is hard to describe EP> this by e-mail. EP> Emmanuel EP> Ivan Herman wrote: >> Emmanuel >> >> This is where the email method breaks ;-) To be honest, I do not understand what you do not understand (if you >> understand what I mean...). >> >> When the canvas is empty, I begin to put resources, labelled edges, >> etc and indeed everything is visible and nice. But if you get to a >> graph with 20-30 resources and the corresponding links, the canvas >> gets full. Ie, the labels get occluded, etc. So I may want to go an >> edit some details, ie, I would like to zoom into some detail. And that >> is what I cannot do. >> >> I. >> >> ---- Ivan Herman Head of Offices, World Wide Web Consortium C/o Dutch Office of W3C at CWI Kruislaan 413, 1098SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 5924163 fax: +31 20 5924312 mobile: +33 6 0887 2517 URI: http://www.w3.org/People/all#ivan
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