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From: DJ Delorie on 20 Apr 2008 23:03

rickman <gnuarm(a)gmail.com> writes:
> FreeRouter does the opposite in the sense they instead of moving the
> image so the cursor is the center of the screen, they use the cursor
> as the center of the zoom!

PCB has an option for whether you want zooming to recenter the
crosshairs or not. I like "not" but both ways have their followers.

I prefer "not" because I'm of the opinion that the applications should
NEVER move the mouse cursor. The mouse is an input device, not an
output device.
From: Mel Wilson on 22 Apr 2008 07:46
rickman wrote:
> On Apr 12, 1:48 pm, James Morrison <sp...(a)stratforddigital.ca> wrote:
>> On 2008/Apr/12 11:29 AM, in article
>> 209e6958-dcc3-4f8f-a76a-014f11522...(a)e67g2000hsa.googlegroups.com, "rickman"
>>
>>> I tried Eagle and the oddities of the UI were rather tricky to
>>> initially learn. Then I came back to it 6 months later and they were
>>> just as tricky to learn the second time! If you don't use a program
>>> very often, it is pointless to try to use such an odd bird as Eagle
>>> (so to speak). There are much better alternatives.
[ ... ]
> I don't recall and that is the problem. I *have* to remember how
> Eagle works vs other tools that just plain work like most other
> packages that are even vaguely related to drawing anything. One thing
> that I think Allan got very right when he wrote FreePCB is the scroll
> button zoom. He not only centers the screen on the cursor when you
> turn the wheel, he *only* centers it on the first click and doesn't
> start zooming until the second click. I don't recall what Eagle does,

AFAIK, Eagle zooms using the scroll wheel, centered on the cursor
position. You can move the schematic within the screen by zooming out
on one center and zooming in on another. Once upon a time I was
getting along quite well with Eagle, and the secret seemed to be to
get familiar with the text commands; there were manipulations of nets
and what not that couldn't be done any other way. I stopped using it
for a couple of years and now I can't remember what it was I used to do.

Mel.
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