Everyone. How are you doing?
It was May in Japan, the days were hot every day.
About Tinderbox11 Help Manual
（I think readers are already aware of this.）
Information City view keyboard shortcut.
Explanation on Tinderbox Help (wrong description?)
You can move in the Information City view using the keyboard:
W forward, S backward, A left, D right, - down, + up
Information City view keyboard shortcuts do exactly the opposite.
The following is the correct keyboard movement for Information City view.
W : backward
S : forward
A : right
D : left
- : up
+: down
Yours, WAKAMATSU
P.S
The words “beautiful May” have become a thing of the past.
I think the manual is correct for the WASD keys. Here, if I use the W key, I move forward—things in front of me come closer. Other keys work as advertised.
I am using Tinderbox v11.7 on macOS 26.5.
I am not suggesting you see different behaviour, but why you should experience it is unclear. It appears both axes of movement are reversed. It almost implies the axes have got inverted. If moving ‘right’ meant increasing the X-axis value of the observer’s position (where X is left/right and Y front/back), if the axis was inverted, then moving to a hight X value would move left instead of right. But how the exes would get inverted I have no idea.
Whatever the cause, it appears you are experiencing an abnormal effect, i.e. now the documented expectation.
Dear Dr.Mark Anderson,
My environment is OS 13.7.8 Ventura.
When an object in city view presses the W key on the Tinderbox screen
Objects on the screen become “larger”. In other words, get closer.
I confirmed this time.
However, for A and D, the object moves to the arrows A=right'' and D=left’'.
Is it the same even if I change the keyboard input to alphanumeric or Japanese?
What is happening?
Yours, WAKAMATSU
The you press A, things move to the right because you move to the left. It is you moving to the left that makes objects appear to move to the right. You are moving the point of observation, your ‘eye’, rather than the objects being looked at.
I think this explains the confusion. When you move left (‘A’), things in front of you move right; when you move right (‘D’) things in front of you move left. I think part of the reason is humans rarely walk sideways: were would turn and walk, so the A/D perspective change can feel unnatural.
Dear Dr.Mark Anderson,
Now I can understand what city view is.
I understood that it is a shortcut function that changes a person’s perspective.
I understand the meaning of increase from the origin on the “X axis” and “Y axis” in a mathematical sense.
As I was thinking about it, the judgment of the “observation point” that occurs due to the difference in this point of focus is giving the opposite impression.
I’ll try reading the Help Manual again.
Yours, WAKAMATSU
P.S
It seems that the habit of professional classical musicians of starting from the origin of the coordinate axes when observing and thinking about things has resulted in a difference in the perspective of thinking.