Kris,

There is something similar in the system already. 

- From a Morphic project, open a new Morphic project
- Mouse down and hold on the project view. Wait for a menu to appear.
- Select ENTER ACTIVE from the menu
- This project can now be seen and interacted with in the green bordered morph. This morph can be resized to change the scale and the button along the right edge offer some options for changing the view.

Cheers,
Bob

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:50:00 -0500 "Krisztian Flautner" <manowar at engin.umich.edu> wrote:
>Regarding the problems that people have been experiencing
>about the screen on a PDA being too small:
>
>I was wondwering how difficult it would be to create a
>Morph that would zoom the contents of a project and allow
>interaction with the objects within the project through
>the zoomed interface. In other words, the zoomer morph
>would look like a project view before one enters it,
>except that one can interact with the morphs in it without
>having to enter the project.
>
>I envision a rectangle that could be sized to the physical
>screen of the PDA. The bottom of the rectangle would include
>icons to zoom the view in and out, and some other buttons
>to support click modifiers (like a button for an ALT key,
>right, middle mouse buttons etc. maybe shortcuts to a few
>other things). One could move around the zoomed view by clicking
>on the four edges.
>
>This morph would allow us to start using the existing stuff
>on the small screen. Eventually we can add extra support to
>morphs to do intelligent resizing. For example, depending
>on the zoom level, less important information is progressively
>discarded and/or less important information gets small faster
>than more important information.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Is there something in the existing image that comes close
>to doing this?