[Kst] kdeextragear-2/kst/kst

[Andrew Walker]

The ideal solution would be to limit the zoom range to what can be encompassed by the labels. 
Most architectures have 14 signifincant figures for doubles, while the labels give (at best) 9 
significant figures.  Thus, at first glance, limiting to 9 sig. figs. would seem appropriate. 
 
However, this zoom range would change depending on the value that we are zoomed around. Thus, 
if the user is zoomed in to the minimum range permitted near 0.0 this would then be less than the 
minimum zoom range near 10.0. So scrolling around would present problems, unless we 
dynamically change the zoom range as the user scrolls (probably not desirable). 
 
The current code is better than it was, but far from ideal. Suggestions are welcome. 
 
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- 
From: George Staikos <staikos at kde.org> 
Date:  Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:02:23 -0400 
 
>On Tuesday 03 August 2004 22:36, Andrew Walker wrote: 
>> CVS commit by arwalker: 
>> Fix for 86524. 
>> 
>> -#define X_MIN_DIFFERENCE 0.000001 
>> -#define Y_MIN_DIFFERENCE 0.000001 
>> +#define X_MIN_DIFFERENCE (MINDOUBLE*10.0) 
>> +#define Y_MIN_DIFFERENCE (MINDOUBLE*10.0) 
>> 
> 
>  I'm not sure that this can be correct anywhere except around 0.0.  MINDOUBLE  
>is defined to be the smallest value represented by double.   
> 
>  The zoom logic looks like this: 
> 
> if (ymax_in > ymin_in + Y_MIN_DIFFERENCE) { // only accept new range if valid 
>    YMax = ymax_in; 
>    YMin = ymin_in; 
>    return true; 
>  } 
> 
>   However floats are not evenly distributed.  This means that while the  
>difference between 0 and [first_positive_neighbor_of_0] is MINDOUBLE, further  
>out it could be very many times MINDOUBLE. 
> 
>--  
>George Staikos 
>KDE Developer			http://www.kde.org/ 
>Staikos Computing Services Inc.	http://www.staikos.net/ 
> 


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