24 Hours of Leopard: Hot Spots

no seriously..did it get the axe?

So did this make it into the release version or not?

This feature was cut from this release.

@Andrew: Sorry, I wasn't clear. I checked in the UA control panel (yes, in Leopard, I'm naughty). Also checked the system-wide help as well as the System Preferences help and found nothing.

It'd be too bad if this got the axe. It seems like it might be a useful tool.

I'm not a developer, but I have a GREAT idea for such an OS-level feature. But doesn't 10 spots seem to be rather arbitrary? Why can't I define 100 spots if the display is capable?

On Resolution Independent UI, it just works - you don't need to adjust it to get it to work (I'm on the Leopard Beta). The icons, for instance, run at 512 px squared so you can read the text on the TextEdit pad.

As for hot spots, I hate to say this but I can't find it anywhere. It may have been axed :(

@Simon:

On the 300 features pages, It's under "Universal Access," second column at the bottom. I can't imagine Apple would be advertising it if they axed it.

Maybe check the fancy-dancy new help system - it might say something about it.

Resolution independence is in the shipping build. There's no user-exposed UI for turning it on (but it's easy enough for geeks and tweakers to turn on) so it's not listed in the end-user features list, but it is mentioned on Apple's developer pages.

I agree, this is one of the big advancements in accessibility, especially for aging users. Not exposing it to the user, at least initially, gives developers to update their apps for resolution independence. Apparently most work, but some apps have issues with fixed-size raster graphics.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but I don't see any mention of it in Universal Access, and the system help and System Preferences don't come up with anything under hot spots. I think this one might have gotten the axe, unless I'm looking in the wrong places (which I freely admit is a distinct possibility).

Just plain cool.