Zoom In / Zoom Out

[Ismail]

Hello all...

Just curious, how would I simulate this in WINK, the Zoom In/ Zoom
Out of a particular area,
like a particular Menu being used, to show the Text a little bit
Bigger, but make it scale smooth.

Ex: http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/demo/

Thanks,
Izzy.

[Steveo250k]

I would do it like an animator, frame by frame. It takes surprisingly
few frames to make a smooth animation. I have not zoomed a screen,
but I have done similar things at http://o-shining-see.com. Look at
the tutorial on formatting the APA Style, Formatting the body (http://
o-shining-see.com/How_to_Format_APA_with_Word/04_Body.html). About 2
minutes into this tutorial I talk about using Control C to copy text.
I show a brief animation of a keyboard and 2 fingers pressing the CTRL
and C keys. This is only took 7 frames. More frames would be
smoother, but it gets the point across.

I have not tried zooming a screen. I suppose how you do that depends
on the application. In IE 7 you can hold the control key and turn the
roller on your mouse if it has one. This works in FireFox also. In
Windows Office apps you can use the View > Zoom menu function. The
control key/mouse roller button works also in MS products. Just
increase (or decrease) the zoom percentage a little at a time and
capture the screen each time.

[deepspringer]

One way to easily animate the zoom-in frame-by-frame, as Steveo250k
suggests, is to take a screenshot of your open menu, and then insert
it onto an empty PowerPoint frame. (Could use free OpenOffice.org
version of PowerPoint.) Then progressively enlarge the image (to zoom-
in) by pulling diagonally down-and-out on the lower right corner's
"handle". At each progressive step (frame), take a screenshot, and
then paste it into Windows Paint to enable saving the screenshot as a
png file that you can then import into Wink, using the Frame
Properties - Add Image function.

On Dec 29 2008, 8:38 am, Steveo250k <so...@trnswrks.com> wrote:
> I would do it like an animator, frame by frame. It takes surprisingly
> few frames to make a smooth animation. I have not zoomed a screen,

> but I have done similar things athttp://o-shining-see.com. Look at

[Ismail Ibric]

Hey deepspringer,

 

Thanks for the workaround. :)

 

I was wondering how difficult it would be if Wink was able to provide the

feature to Zoom In/ Zoom Out as part of the Application? :)

 

I've only dabbled with Flash a tiny bit, but it might be possible to do this in Wink if we could Mark a region with a Rectangle (Special Shape or Selection Rectangle) and Wink would internally create a Sprite with the background image and resize it, move the x-y position to an approximate offset, so that the rectangle we made would be Zoomed In... and even Zoomed Out. :)

 

Thanks,

Izzy.

 

 

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From: wink-d...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wink-d...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of deepspringer

Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:25 PM

To: wink-discuss

Subject: Re: Zoom In / Zoom Out

[deepspringer]

Hopefully Satish will be able to add your excellent suggestion to his
enhancements to-do list.

I continue to be tremendously impressed with the flexibility and power
of Wink 2.0, and greatly appreciate all the effort and intelligence
that Satish has invested in developing it. It provides an excellent
tool to help software developers everywhere create outstanding demos
to help sell their products and train their customers in how to use
them.

[Ismail Ibric]

I totally agree! :)

[Chris]

Hi
another tick is to make a series of still graphic images, all at your
chosen resoultion eg 1024x768 pixels that your wink project is in.

Add some blank slides (background is ugly black, so match the
resolution)

Add the graphics by cut and paste from the other graphic viewing
program, ( Paint.net is ideal and free)
then you can add wink dialogue boxes etc over the top and work as
normal.

its simpler and easier to edit if you change your mind.