AlpineQuest & OfflineMaps

I just love this app, that's a fact not a bribe!

In particular I like that holding the phone in my right hand with my thumb on the button I can home in on a waypoint or see more of the way ahead. However the scale is quite coarse (fast) so often the slightest nudge is too much.

Having tested, it goes from pixelated raster to reducing the world to the size of a postage stamp. If the zoom could made finer even at the extent of reducing the zoom out (by button) that would be great, for me at least.

(I did look through your list of optional codes, most of which I didn't understand, but did not spot anything).


Hope you understand what I mean.

Kind regards
David

Hi David,
Yes I understand, it's true that the zoom slider is very sensitive.
Right now it does cover the whole range of scales of the main map (the one displayed at the bottom).
Unfortunately right now there is no setting to change this.

I'll see what I can do for the next update, maybe limit the outer scale, which is not very useful after a certain point...

Gosh, you gave me a fright when I saw the button had disappeared but then I noticed the shadow and all was well again . If my memory is correct I think you have reduced the range somewhat and you need more than one swipe for it to get really silly.

Thank you.
Kind regards
David

Is it possible to use two versions of the slider, old and new? If not, then I ask you to somehow improve the visualization of the slider. The problem is that it is simply not visible on the screen. For those users who know where it is, this is not a very big problem - by trial and error, I found it and realized that the slider is in place, it just looks different.
But new users may simply not understand that there is a slider on the right side of the screen. Even if the application settings say "Use slider", it is not visible on the screen until you swipe the screen. But for this you need to know where to swipe your finger.

Thanks.

From my point of view I much prefer the new version and it fits nicely with my theme on another thread of reducing unnecessary items on the map. Having recently drawn my first path I have discovered that it possible to change both the style and the opacity. If the slider opacity could be made a variable with the default being high then that could go some way to meeting Alex's concerns.

Hi,
I'll soon publish a new update with some new improvements on the zoom slider.
It will be displayed as before (a bit smaller), but will have the new behavior. I can also add an user setting to make it not visible.
Then we'll discuss again once you've tested it.

Thanks, that sounds great, If a user setting is tricky for you to code a visible button is perfectly acceptable to me, and as Alex says makes it more obvious to new users, as I was not so very long ago.

I have seen how you have set up the slider. I did wonder how you would manage making the range a bit finer. I must say it is a very elegant piece of coding.

Thank you very much indeed for doing that.
Kind regards
David

I've reduced the range of scale in the slider bar, now you may need to scroll two times to go from max scale to min scale, but it's not a problem.

I've also added an user setting to you can reduce even more the sensitivity: Default value is 0.5, if you set to 0.25 it will be 2 times less sensitive.

For the next update, I've made the background disappear more quickly after touching the slider.