When I switch from ‘Outline view’ to ‘Map view’, what I see is the right-inferior corner of the window pane. However, the notes I have created are on the upper-left corner of the window pane (which is outside of what is seen on the screen). To view the notes, then I have to scroll to get to the upper-right corner of the window pane.
It looks like the problem is that the canvas of the window pane has become too big (too much real estate).
The other Tinderbox files I have behave without any problem when switching from ‘outline view’ to
‘Map view’
Is there any way I can centre the view of my window pane on where my notes are?
The right inferior corner of the window pane would be the right lower corner of the text pane. To understand the layout see to which part of the following are you referring:
Be aware that each tab, more specifically the view pane of the tab, stores its own selections—regardless of view type. So two discrete tabs using the same type of view can have different selections. See more on tabs, windows and selections.
If I have a note selected in the map in tab #1, then change to tab #2 which is an outline view and then add some new notes, Tinderbox has no idea where on the map the new notes should be placed. The position of a note on the map has no relation to its position in the outline. See more on map vs outline and position.
So if adding a note in outline or other views, it will have a map position but Tinderbox effectively has to guess a position which you can then revise when you return to map view. Likewise, having added items to the map and thus making the map bigger than the size of the view pane, the app doesn’t necessarily know what you intent to see on returning to the map. But if you don’t see the expected item, it is easily resolved by ‘blind typing’ the desired note’s name in the view pane: see more.
So I’m not sure there is an error here so much as a mistaken assumption, which is easily done.
@mwra thank you for your patience in explaining the basics and then address the issue. Yes, I made a mistake in my references to the various areas of the UI.
Thank you about the ‘blind typing’ does bring the desired note into view - and is good enough for me.
In my case the ‘map’ is much larger than view pane. I am curious to know Is there way to shrink the Map to the size of the view pane. I tried the ‘shrink to fit’ and ‘shrink’ with no effect on decreasing the acreage of the map.
“Shrink To Fit” applies to the selected notes, and reduces their font size so the name of the note fits in the allotted space.
The size of the map view is always set to the bounding box of all the notes in that map view, plus a margin of (if I recall correctly) about half the screen size. That means you can almost always find somewhere to put a new note.
I only have four notes all close to each other in the view pane. However, the map view is much larger than the view pane:
Map view height: twice the heigh of of the view pane
Map view width: three times the width of the view pane
So my four notes need panning the view pane extensively to locate (now I use ‘blind typing’ to locate more quickly).
There are several issues we, as the user of the map, need to consider:
If we need to see all the map we can set a different zoom level. But then titles may be hard to read. That might lead to a realised that one is using title too long. IOW, does the $Name need to be the full title of a paper or sentence in a source, or could is be shorter and shown in larger text for use in a zoomed out map. Some lateral thought about using the tools in the Tinderbox toolbox can pay off. Defaults are just that, but most aspects of the view can be altered via settings or attribute values.
We just want to see the ‘right’ part of the map. But what is ‘right’, there are many choices some of which only exist in our mind, unknowable to the app. The map :
…as it was when I first started the session
…as it was when I first navigated down from the map above
…as it was when I last navigated up out of it
…as it was when I switched focus out of the map to another tab’ view
…as it was when I switched this view to another view type and back
…showing the last note I last added
…showing/selecting the note that I’m imagining seeing (because its the one I want to work on)
…including the selected note—but where: centre?, in a corner?, offset to one side?
If I add notes to a map (other than by double click onto the map) notes are added to the right of the last added note. If I add notes to the map content using a different view the app has to figure out a location not interfering with other notes. If adding notes to the map extends of the current visible area, should the map zoom? Show the last added note? But if the latter, I now can’t see the note in mind (i.e. the one selected when I started adding new notes.
Instinctively we think the map can/should ‘just’ do all this. Over time I’ve learned that my intuited ‘last used’ state of the map is actually me mis-remembering the state.
No fault on any part here. I’m simply noting, from experience that a program cannot always guess are intent. For me, the map view is the most human-inflected of the view—it shows what I want in the place I put it. Sometimes I need to pan or zoom the map, not least because what i need to see is in my mind and not accessible to the program.
@mwra Thank you for incorporating my comment into the broader concept that the programme has to deal with when working on Map view. I now understand. If need be, I will ‘blind type’ to locate the note or zoom out to locate my note!
