Feature Suggestion - ZUI zoom into cluster to open it - Zoom out to close it

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Esben Clausen Nørgaard on January 20, 2012 at 1:04am

That would be awesome!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 20, 2012 at 2:43am

That would be awesome. Unfortunately this cannot directly be achieved in Grasshopper's case. I use GDI+ to draw the canvas and I use display transform matrices to mimic zooming and panning. There's only so much zooming before GDI+ throws in the towel altogether, which is already visible at the moment when zooming in on areas far away from the (0,0) point. Since clusters can contain other clusters, it would require zooming to become potentially infinite.

At any rate, once clusters become editable, it would be fairly trivial to trigger that feature, be it via menu, shortcut or ZUI.

--

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Jonah Hawk on January 20, 2012 at 5:45am

Ah, so the UI is scaling essentially? I can see how you would run out of decimal places.

I figured it would not actually be an infinite zoom but only a trigger to open the associated definition, and store the parent def as a bread crum variable to find our way back. Maybe when in the cluster, there could be some sort of visual clues when you are about to pop back out; the components and canvas fade/desaturate or something. Almost as though your zooming away, up through a layer of clouds... Alright, back to sleep for me!