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On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 8:16 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> The "working area" thing was around long before I started, and it
> might have just been a naive way to make the software simpler.
>
> Aside from any negative-coordinate issues (which we could/should
> probably just fix), the other reason that came up the first time we
> discussed this was the problem of "losing track" of your perspective,
> or the board itself.  Consider a gschem startup where there's no
> visible sense of scale, and the first part you add is a tiny dot...
>
> Yes, this is a minor point, but I don't think we got past it either.
> Having an unbounded "zoom out" makes it difficult to do something
> simple like show a reasonable scroll bar, for example.  Little things
> like that.

Would it make sense to just have an area say 2x in each dimension
larger than board?  So you can stack parts "next" to what you're working
on.  IIRC zoom out is clamped something like this so you can't lose
the board.

Britton