[ge-talk] The mouse and the tensor, by Lafontaine

[Martin Caron]

Today i was looking at the prelimenary work of Baldur on "Black Eagle", 
a PAO app he is working on.  I noticed how much screen estate is wasted 
for the page section.  To give you an idea, BePDF use the same method.

For weird reason it reminded me of a problem i have with all "seek" 
slider in media players of all OS in general.  The problem is that 
finding a page is exactly that, a slider, but in numerical instead of 
analog.

So what would solve a lot of problem and allow to use smaller screen is 
to enable a section of the screen (the slider control for exemple but 
it could also be interresting to apply it to BView to generalise) to be 
of different mouse setting.

That mean that the longuer a movie is, the more "rope" you will need to 
pull on the mouse to scroll from the start of the slider to the end.  
In that differed "scale" the slider/pointer could overlay a readable 
number of frame (page, sector, crossing road on a map...).

The scale would set itself up to the minimum resolution the app can 
handle for the "media" it's seeking trough.  Because you may run out of 
desk eventually, it should be possible to lift the mouse, but that 
could be more tricky on a laptop (or perhaps not if the mouse down keep 
it in slider mode).  Want to seek faster, lift the mouse a bit farther 
up or down from the direction of the seek and get variable (tensorial) 
mouse scale around the slider box.  That region could be made linear or 
log (like with the mouse speed is direct or accelerated).

i'm not exacly sure or it would look and feel, but this could also be 
applied to tracker scroll windows.

AlienSoldier