[MV] Re: OT: zoom screen display in OS 9?

[Tom R. no spam]

Thanks, I've just tried it.  Unfortunately, that doesn't have
the granularity that the OS X zoom has.  It seems to force
choices as 2X, 3X, etc.  What's actually wanted is a way for
a person whose eyes are getting older and farsighted to be
able to use OS 9 on a 12" lcd, like the iBook and alBook,
without having constantly to put on and take off reading
glasses.  So for one software at one time of day in one level
of lighting, like 1.15 zoom is good, another sw/time/lighting
1.3 zoom is good, and so on.  (With minimum setting, seems like
the minimum step in OS X's zoom is approx 15% original standard
size.)  Just listening to people talk, this seems like a common
enough problem with laptops that I've been hoping it was solved
for OS 9 the way the zoom feature works in OS X.

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Geoff Wallace wrote:
 . . .
> You need to install the Close View Control Panel from an OS 9 Installer CD,
> usually in a folder called Universal Access. This has a similar function as
> the OS X Universal Access Turn on Zoom.
 . . .
> On 13/07/2003 04:53 PM, "Tom R. no spam" <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu> wrote:
>
> > (Since apparently some of the members of this list know about
> > using speech recognition to deal with complexities of
> > typewritten communication, I'm speculating someone might have
> > a lead to a list dealing with Macs and complexities of vision.)
> >
> > Anyone know how to get OS 9 to zoom the screen display on an
> > lcd screen (iBook or alBook, specifically in mind), like
> > OS 10.2.6 can do it by turning on zoom in the Universal Access
> > System Preference?  Ie, not changing the screen resolution, as
> > can be done in the OS 9 Monitors Control Panel, but zooming the
> > display without changing the resolution setting.  I've tried
> > running OS 9 applications in Classic in OS X and using X's
> > zooming (option-cmd-+/- key combinations), but that zooms only
> > the OS X material in the display, and merely blanks (white)
> > the screen area which is Classic's OS 9 windows.  Just zooming
> > regular OS 9, not OS 9 apps running in Classic, would be a
> > useful start; zooming Classic along with OS X would be a treat.
> > TIA.