Navigation DialogNavigationDialog
The Navigation dialog is designed to offer easy movement around the active
image if the zoom is set higher than what the image window can display. If
this is the case, there is an white colored rectangle that shows the
location of the current view area in respect to the image. In this
rectangle, the mouse pointer takes the form of a grabbing hand; outside
this rectangle, it takes the form of a hand with pointing fore-finger.
To change the viewing region:
Click outside the rectangular area with the pointing fore-finger on
the wanted region.
Click and drag the rectangular area.
Use Shift and mouse-wheel to move horizontally,
Alt and mouse-wheel to move vertically.
Activating the dialog
The Navigation dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section
for help on manipulating it.
You can access it:
from the image menu:
WindowsDockable DialogsNavigation;
from the Tab menu in any dockable dialog by clicking on
and selecting
Add TabNavigation,
from the image-menu:
ViewNavigation window.
You can access more quickly to it (but without the zoom functions)
by clicking on the icon at the right bottom corner of the image window:
Using the Navigation DialogThe slider
It allows easy zoom level control, more precise than with the
Zoom command. This slider can
also be moved using the mouse wheel when the mouse pointer is on
the slider, or Ctrl and mouse wheel.
The buttonsZoom OutZoom In
and Zoom 1:1
are self explanatory.
Adjust the zoom ratio so that the image becomes fully visible
The zoom ratio is adjusted so that the whole image becomes
visible in the window as it is.
Adjust the zoom ratio so that the window is used optimally
The image size and the zoom are adjusted so that the image
is fully displayed with the lesser zoom.
Reduce the image window to the size of the image display
Restore the image window to the size which allows the image
to be fully displayed with the zoom unchanged. This command
is also as menu entry available. See
for the details.