Make zooming in faster

[matkoniecz]

Maybe it is just me but I am repeatedly a bit irritated by waiting for zooming in/out on element selection and quest solving. Especially where there multiple elements that I solve together.

Maybe increasing animation speed a bit would be a good idea?

[smichel17]

Maybe a little? Hard for me to comment since I have all my animations set to half duration.

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On December 9, 2021 11:06:55 AM UTC, Mateusz Konieczny ***@***.***> wrote: Maybe it is just me but I am repeatedly a bit irritated by waiting for zooming in/out on element selection and quest solving. Especially where there multiple elements that I solve together. Maybe increasing animation speed a bit would be a good idea?

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[mnalis]

How did you do it? Is it some general Android setting, or you have your custom build modified to be faster?

[smichel17]

General android settings > Developer Options > Animator duration scale = 0.5x

Didn't you have animations disabled this way at one point?

Note: It doesn't affect all animations: the quest form still slides onto the screen, even if Window animation, Transition animation, and Animator duration scale are set to "off".

[mnalis]

I don't think it was me (although my memory could be failing. I did try enabling audio effects in SC and then quickly turned it back off, perhaps that ringed the bell? Or the whole "wrong Notes position with pictures" bug where TangramES animations did jump all over the place?)

Anyway trying that Animator duration scale = 0.5x is just about too fast for me (and with animations off, SC looks much worse usability-wise for me). Unfortunately those are the only choices for speeding up (I guess 0.75x as a halfway between 0.5x and default 1x would be about fine "fast" speed for me - but Android does not offer that).

But perhaps mentioning that Android option in FAQ might be good for @matkoniecz and others for whom SC animations are too slow (or too fast)?

[mnalis]

Maybe?

However I find initial zoom-in animation (right after clicking on quest) useful to help verify if the right quest is selected / for orientation, and I'm not sure what speed would be too fast for me (or other users) to follow. Slight increase should be OK if you ask me; but then again, slight increase won't really help much with the issue...

Zoom-out (after the quest is solved) IMHO could be made much faster, as it is less useful. Not sure if different speeds for zoom in/out would be annoying, though.

And I guess "make it an user preference" would be (appropriately) frowned at 😃