Feature : Increase/decrease the animated preview size

[juliandescottes]

Should be able to zoom-in/zoom-out, or even specify an exact resolution.

If the size remains under 200px width, that's very easy to implement. Otherwise, it means increasing the column size, which is a bit more difficult to handle with the current layout.

Option 1 : modify the animated preview container

This feature goes along the lines of other improvements for the animated preview :

• tiled background
• show only current layer (maybe should be a layer option though)

I think we could change the line below the animated preview.

• Keep the onion skin toggle
• swap the horizontal FPS slider for a vertical slider that would open only when clicking on the FPS
• add a preview size select with the options :
  • auto : current behavior, scale the preview to 200px*200px
  • 1x, 2x, 3x etc ... : multipliers of the original size up to 200px ; width or height, whichever comes first
• add a tiled background toggle

  Option 2 : add an option in the User Settings panel

Easier. Add a preview size select (same behavior as described in Option 1). I don't think anyone would instinctively look there to find the feature.

On the other hand it's not something as critical as, let's say the onion skin and this can be a good first implementation to test the feature without compromising the current UI.

I lean towards implementing first Option 2 and then Option 1 when we have more time (or need more control over the animated preview)

Comments ?

[juliandescottes]

Redundant with the detached preview that will be released for v0.5.0