How about this- The first transition from linear to binned and from binned to linear, pop up a dialog explaining the change. The box would appear when the map is drawn (it is 'selecting' that requires an extension to make a decision), i.e, the first redraw after Apply or OK is pressed.
The dialog would have an OK button to dismiss it and a check-box for "don't warn me again'. The "don't warn me again setting" would be a saved configuration. We may want to still include a status indicator so that we can get a quick answer to the zoom style when others report problems. Note that I was not proposing to change the way zoom boxes or direct scale entry works, only the event driven zoom changes from buttons. ...jerry On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote: > >> I agree with the user notification. I was thinking (hoping) that the >> the menu entries could be changed dynamically, but I can see where >> that might not be enough. Adding a pop-up when the maps are selected >> would run into the same issues that drove me to create the new >> extension, but maybe there is another way/time to inform the user of >> the change. What about something on the status bar? > > I don't think that would be visible enough. > > Just throwing out another idea: What about drawing warning text on > the map? It could even be something that has a timeout and > disappears after 5 or 10 seconds. Would pop up each time one of the > non-standard zoom levels was attempted perhaps, via zoom-box or > other. > > Another possibility would be to add warning text in the Map Chooser > next to those selections. Just append text to every OSM file when > writing the lines into the Map Chooser. Might have to chop those > off again when checking what was selected... Have to look at the > code to see. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir-dev mailing list > Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list Xastir-dev@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev