[feature request] automatically switch modes after selecting a grid subcell

[amqndin]

so in grid mod your screen is divided into cells, and after you choose a cell by entering its 2-key combination you can also choose a subcell. this works in 99% of cases, but very often its just not enough precision!

the suggestion is, after selecting a subcell in the grid mode, stochos should automatically switch to a certain mode set by configuration: either bisect mode or free mode. right now, i must manually go to free mode from grid mode in order to achieve higher precision there. and i cannot use bisect mode, because when i enter bisect mode after choosing a subcell it just starts over from the middle of the screen. when ideally, i would prefer to automatically switch to bisect mode after selecting a subcell.

i've been enjoying stochos for the last week, an amazing software!

[tharropoulos]

I'm not sure about how bisect would work in this situation, as the smallest cell bisect provides is actually larger than anything in the subcell selection. I would understand automatically going to free mode instead though.

Could you elaborate on how you would use bisect in that situation? Having a really small minimum cell size for bisect will make the letters unreadable I think

[amqndin]

I'm not sure about how bisect would work in this situation, as the smallest cell bisect provides is actually larger than anything in the subcell selection. I would understand automatically going to free mode instead though.

Could you elaborate on how you would use bisect in that situation? Having a really small minimum cell size for bisect will make the letters unreadable I think

hi! thank you for reaching out, i will gladly try to explain. as i have already mentioned:

i cannot use bisect mode, because when i enter bisect mode after choosing a subcell it just starts over from the middle of the screen

so of course that is not a good behaviour! instead, at the point where i have chosen a subcell, i i would have narrowed down my precision a lot. so i want bisect mode to start the entire bisect grid in the size of that subcell, at that specific position so i can further narrow down the specific point.

[tharropoulos]

The subcells aren't big enough to make a single letter a 2x2 grid readable. We would have to either zoom into the subcel (possible on MacOS using accessibility permissions I hope, not sure about any other display server), or paint everything on top of each other, which is wonky

[amqndin]

when the bisect grid becomes too small put the letters outside of the grid itself. for reference, look at how wl-kbptr "tile" mode works, its the same as stochos "grid" mode, except at the end, for further precision it allows you to use bisect mode by default, after choosing a grid subcell.

[tharropoulos]

Could you share a demo? I don't have access to my linux laptop for the time being, and wl-kbptr doesn't have a demo with that usecase

[amqndin]

sure, I will try to film a demo tomorrow if I still remember