Navigation Options in Fold It
| Case number: | 699969-992646 |
| Topic: | General |
| Opened by: | kev_847 |
| Status: | Duplicate |
| Assigned: | Anonymous |
| Priority: | 5-Low |
| Type: | Suggestion |
| Opened on: | Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 17:12 |
| Last modified: | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 22:06 |
I know that there are many users used to using the current navigation options in Foldit but the way to rotate, turn, zoom and pan do not seem "natural" to a new user. I believe that it could be quite helpful to have an option to change the navigation.
Zoom should be a simple scroll up or scroll down (with an option to invert)
Pan should be a (mouse wheel (3rd button) - click and hold) to bring up the panning hand
Rotate should be a combination of a Button + Cursor Movement (like Ctrl + Move Cursor towards Bottom Left)
(These options (and their variations) can be seen using Google Earth, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Google Sketchup)
Thanks for Listening!
Tue, 05/15/2012 - 22:06
#2
| Status: Open » Duplicate |
| Priority: 3 » 5-Low |
marked as duplicate to http://fold.it/portal/node/991513
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In my opinion, outside of some very expensive 3D CAD tools, foldit navigation tools are great, precise, fluid and responsive using a two button mouse and the shift key.
Rotate = Button + Cursor - no thanks - just click the white space and spin using the mouse movement.
Not sure about your mouse, but the wheel on mine and many of the standard ones are really clunky. I have two buttons and one wheel. To pan I right click and drag, simple and very precise.
Google earth navigation has always annoyed me - it is imho nowhere near as good or intuitive as foldit and it is clunky, probably because it is a web app.