Subject: Zoom & Perspective
Date: Sun, 29 May 94 05:01:09 EST
From: mtucibat@cris.com (Mike Tucibat)

                                   I.M.L.


Hi All!

I'd like to ask anyone interested their thoughts on the functioning of 
the Zoom and Perspective features of Imagine.  

These features are programmed to carry the settings over from one editor
to the next. That means, say, that if I'm zoomed way out to see my whole
scene in Stage, I usually have to reset when I go to Detail.  Then, if I
zoom in to work in Detail, I must reset when I go to Spline and add fonts.

Resets are also usually necessary if adjustments are made to Perspective 
settings. An additional problem with Perspective Settings, in all the 
Editors except Stage, is that if you adjust the zoom factor to work in 
one of the tri-view windows, it also changes the zoom in the Perspective 
window.

Additionally, whatever your Zoom and Perspective settings are when you 
close a Project, if you open another Project without quitting Imagine, the 
new Project will open with the same Zoom and Perspective settings.

If you do frequent switching among Editors, this is inconvenient  If you're 
a new user, I can see how it could be pretty confusing. 

I don't want the settings to transfer between Editors, but I'm not sure 
whether it would be better to have them open at the default settings or 
the last settings used in that Editor.  And I'd like Zoom changes in the
tri-view windows to not change the Perspective view.  Of course, when I'm 
*really* working, I have two copies of Imagine running with one open to 
Stage.  That helps somewhat.

Lemme know what you think.

-mikeT


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