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Wish: Image 'minimap'

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:15 am
by crazytb
I want a 'image minimap', like WarCraft 2, Total Annihilation and all other strategy games minimap. It will be like 'minimap' of Gimp (see screenshot). I don't know the real name of this thing, but it is REALLY useful.

I already know about middle-click on Linux and right-click on Windows, which allow me to 'move' the image, but on a big image (or a really zoomed image) this isn't as useful as 'minimap'.

http://users.vialink.com.br/denilson/fotos/ImageMap.png

Re: Wish: Image "minimap"

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:35 pm
by helmut
crazytb wrote:... It will be like "minimap" of Gimp (see screenshot). I don't know the real name of this thing, but it is REALLY useful. ...
CrazyTB, good to have you back in the XnView newsgroup!

In Adobe PhotoShop this thingy is called 'Navigator', which is a name that fits well, I think. Important is that you cannot just see the area which is displayed, but also navigate in the 'minimap'.
Apart from displaying/setting the position (area displayed) there is a slide to set the Zoom factor. Pretty handy...