Re: most natural behavior on mouse wheel

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Thank you for your thoughts.

Actually, if there is not a standard, it probably depends also on other
items that are on the GUI. For instance, I noticed that on my interface
I also have a numeric up down (NUD) which can control the size (besides
mousewheel). When occasionally the focus is on the NumericUpDown if the
users scroll it will change the value in the NUD. It would be
appropriate if there is consistence with the case where the focus is
not on the NUD...

-tom

Peter Proost ha scritto:

Maybe you can make it with user preferences :-) so they can use what they
like. But if your user haven't got any experience with photoshop or other
software that uses the scroll down to zoom in and scroll up to zoom out,
they'll get accustomed to your method real quick.

Greetz, Peter

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"RMT" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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When I think about it, in terms of 3D motion, I would equate "going
forwards" with coming closer to something, hence it getting larger (in
perspective) and going backwards with moving away from something. But
then
I'm basically using the mouse to describe my position - if you were
thinking
the other way, i.e. that the object is being pulled towards or away from
you, rather than you moving towards or away from it, then of course it's
inverted.

Perhaps the solution is to let the user decide?


"RMT" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think the method you have indicated is the most natural. More than
likely the method used in PhotoShop complies with some Mac user
guidelines
that are different, at least it's UI has some items in non-standard
places
(for a windows application at least).



<tommaso.gastaldi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is a curious question. I'd like to know your opinion.

I am attaching a drawing resize to a mouse wheel event.

Frankly, to me was most natural that, if I mouse wheel UP, the shape
gets bigger, while it gets smaller when mouse wheel DOWN.

I just noticed that Photoshop does the opposite.

Any though about the most natural way (or perhaps are both "natural") ?

-tom






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