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Message 23630 - Posted: 15 Jul 2006, 18:59:48 UTC

Hi,

I\'ve got a few initial points that I think might improve climateprediction.

1) I\'ve figured out that I can use the up, down, left, right arrows to zoom and reposition the spinning globe. This isn\'t explained in the help.

2) When I do zoom in, it would be look nicer if the stats were overlayed on the globe rather than the globe overlayed on the stats.

3) It should be made clear in the H menu that repeat presses of I cycle through Country, City, umm and other stats (latitude, longitude?)

4) It might also be useful if the screensaver actually operated as a screen saver, that is not leaving items on screen permanantly fixed in one place. OK so most people probably have flat panel LCD screens, that suffer less from screenburn, but I bet there\'s still a significant portion of users using CRT.

5) An auto-cycle feature might be useful, whereby the display cycles through Temperature, pressure etc, every 30 seconds (or a user configurable time would be better)

6) The TAB function only cycles through some of the display modes. Ocean surface, and aerosol emmisions are left out.

7) Pressing CTRL + (KEY) when in screensaver mode doesn\'t work for me. The screensaver quits.

So there you go, just a few ideas to maybe make things nicer for the user, not a gripe list or anything.

Paul
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Message 23815 - Posted: 1 Aug 2006, 5:38:30 UTC - in response to Message 23630.  

Thank you for the tips, very nice & usefull!
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Message 23821 - Posted: 2 Aug 2006, 11:52:52 UTC - in response to Message 23630.  

Paul; thanks i\'ve added these to the faeature list. most are at least plausible.


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