WISH: Canvas worm hole component

Hi David,

Any chance of a component that when you click on it takes you to another location on the canvas. It could simply restore a Saved View as one possible way to achieve this or to have a pair of components that when clicked on take you to the other one.

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Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on August 16, 2012 at 2:02pm

Imaging nice time travels through the canvas :D

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 16, 2012 at 3:31pm

I think restoring views would be best served by a widget rather than a canvas object. I sort of imagine little arrows flocking around the edge of the canvas pointing at locations off screen that represent saved views. However a flip back and forth object-pair is an interesting idea. I'll try it, and if it's not too weird it will be available in the next release.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 16, 2012 at 3:57pm

little arrows flocking around the edge of the canvas pointing at locations off screen that represent saved views.

This sounds very cool, but I see it getting crowded with names, unless you can specify a colour and have the tooltip popup with the name. EDIT: and the ability to disable/enable different ones

flip back and forth object-pair

looking forward to it!

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 16, 2012 at 5:20pm

I haven't played with clusters much, but I guess good practice could be to start clustering stuff up when you feel you need this widget to move around the definition.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 17, 2012 at 3:42pm

interface and functionality not necessarily final.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on August 17, 2012 at 4:02pm

Hohoho! Nice!

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on August 17, 2012 at 4:04pm

That's cool. Nicely done.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 17, 2012 at 5:50pm

excellent

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on August 17, 2012 at 5:59pm

Only one idea...what about tags? I've seen that the logic that the tools follows to order the jumps is creation order, and could be a little bit embarrassing with complex definitions (hard to remember where this or that other jump goes). Tag could be in a little bubble over the object or inside (this second choice I suppose that is worst because needs more code to be written because of dynamic resizing), or appears only when the mouse is putted over...

Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on August 20, 2012 at 6:00am

nice one :-)

Best Regards

DeDackel

Permalink Reply by Mateusz on August 22, 2012 at 8:03am

Hm, is it possible to move around with this jump component not only by clicking on it but also by moving mouse over with wire? Sometimes it's very uncomfortable to connect 2 distant components in big definition. Something like:

I hope you know what i mean:)