[squeak-dev] Jeff Raskin's zoom world in Squeak

> Hi All,
>  
> I am the administrator of Hawthorne Center for Innovation located next
> to Fontana in the Riverside area of Southern California.
>  
> The Hawthorne Center is supporting a project - part of which involves
> getting Jeff Raskin's (The Human Interface) zoom world into Squeak.
> Before we start we would like to find out if anyone has already done
> work in this area so that we are not reinventing the wheel (or any
> part of it). So, anyone out there who has played around in this area?
>  
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>  
> Donna

> Hi All,
>  
> I am the administrator of Hawthorne Center for Innovation located next
> to Fontana in the Riverside area of Southern California.
>  
> The Hawthorne Center is supporting a project - part of which involves
> getting Jeff Raskin's (The Human Interface) zoom world into Squeak.
> Before we start we would like to find out if anyone has already done
> work in this area so that we are not reinventing the wheel (or any
> part of it). So, anyone out there who has played around in this area?
>  
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>  
> Donna

>
> 3006newZoomAndScroll-raa -- Bob Arning -- 20 November 2000
> newZoomAndScroll
> fifth version:
> - preset Alan's preferred scale factors for pan and zoom
> - try to keep center of image centered as we zoom
> fourth version:
> - an effort is made to keep the view full of content
> - two sliders are added to experiment with scale factors for pan/tilt
> and zoom
> - we were already doing this: Also, looking ahead into the future a
> little, each page in the bookmorph will have its own zoom, pan and tilt
> settings ....
> third version:
> - do not rely on continuous mouse moves
> - adjust things dropped into inner pasteup so that none extend over left
> or top edge
> second version:
> - added scripting commands to StoryboardBookMorph for getting and
> setting scale, offsetX and offsetY (of the current page).
> first version:
> - made contents of the zoomer a true playfield in a transformation so
> multiple morphs are possible
> -----
> third version:
> - zooming/scrolling controls now in a separate area below the page
> - Balloon interpolating mode now the default
> second version:
> - ZoomAndScrollMorph becomes a PasteUpMorph so it can be in a book
> - StoryboardBookMorph is a book that uses ZoomAndScrollMorph as its pages
> zooming and scolling for Alan
> - get a ZoomAndScrollMorph from the new morph/demo menu
> - drop any morph in it
> - drag mouse horizontally to pan
> - drag mouse vertically to zoom
> - shift-drag vertically to move up/down
> - change the instance variable <usingBalloon> to true to use Balloon"
>
>
>
>

> karl wrote:
>> Here is a little more info:
>> The comment below is from a change set that was added to Squeak 2.9a. You
>> may have to load a Squeak version from that timeframe for it to work as
>> expected.
>
> As a word of advice: Don't even go near that place in recent Squeak
> versions. This code was always extremely experimental and hasn't been
> touched in years (7+ if I'm counting correctly). If you're serious about
> creating a whole new UI (instead of just dabbling for an hour or two to
> see what can be done) you'll be better off starting from scratch than
> trying to retrofit that code.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>>
>> 3006newZoomAndScroll-raa -- Bob Arning -- 20 November 2000
>> newZoomAndScroll
>> fifth version:
>> - preset Alan's preferred scale factors for pan and zoom
>> - try to keep center of image centered as we zoom
>> fourth version:
>> - an effort is made to keep the view full of content
>> - two sliders are added to experiment with scale factors for pan/tilt and
>> zoom
>> - we were already doing this: Also, looking ahead into the future a
>> little, each page in the bookmorph will have its own zoom, pan and tilt
>> settings ....
>> third version:
>> - do not rely on continuous mouse moves
>> - adjust things dropped into inner pasteup so that none extend over left
>> or top edge
>> second version:
>> - added scripting commands to StoryboardBookMorph for getting and setting
>> scale, offsetX and offsetY (of the current page).
>> first version:
>> - made contents of the zoomer a true playfield in a transformation so
>> multiple morphs are possible
>> -----
>> third version:
>> - zooming/scrolling controls now in a separate area below the page
>> - Balloon interpolating mode now the default
>> second version:
>> - ZoomAndScrollMorph becomes a PasteUpMorph so it can be in a book
>> - StoryboardBookMorph is a book that uses ZoomAndScrollMorph as its pages
>> zooming and scolling for Alan
>> - get a ZoomAndScrollMorph from the new morph/demo menu
>> - drop any morph in it
>> - drag mouse horizontally to pan
>> - drag mouse vertically to zoom
>> - shift-drag vertically to move up/down
>> - change the instance variable <usingBalloon> to true to use Balloon"
>>
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