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General Board / working with diagrams (improvement request)

« on: March 09, 2002, 03:05:04 am »

another improvement request from my side.

i tend to make some heavy sized diagrams in bigger projects. although i'm running 1600X1200 resolution, i'm more often faced with diagram sheets extending my screen (window) borders. i know that ea has scrollbars to move and a cool working pane at the bottom.

i'd like to quickly move/edit my sheets. it's working with scrollbars (even with wheel mouse).

but how about following alternatives.

when holding down SPACE within a diagram sheet, mouse cursor alters to a hand and you can simply drag the sheet on whatever direction you want.

when holding down CTRL+SPACE in sheet, mouse alters to magnify and you can zoom in by clicking.

when holding down CTRL+ALT+SPACE in sheet, mouse alters to magnify and you can zoom out by clicking.

could be that some of you may have noticed that common graphics design programs (photosh*p, freeh*nd, illustr*tor aso) have the same shortcuts to move in a picture/sheet)

this is just my 0.02$, other ones may don't like to work with diagram sheets like this.

i'd welcome this improvement. comments also welcome.

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General Board / just a small improvement request

« on: March 08, 2002, 08:05:21 am »

when editing notes in dialog (or even editing attributes/operations in their respective dialogs) i don't wanna move my mouse (man, i'm lazy!) to click on that ok button. especially in notes dialog this can be a little bit "annoying".

what about doing this with a shortcut ? i'd prefer the "outlook-style", when finished with editing, just pressing CTRL+ENTER substitutes pressing the ok button of a dialog.

would be ql.
thx

ps: anyway, i just registered my copy of ea - and its great...