2D World design question

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Published on 2009-10-19T19:12:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 14:38 UTC
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I'm facing a problem which is probably extremely common in game-design.

Let's assume that we've got a 2D world
The world's size is M x N rect
The world may contain some items in it
The items have (x,y) coords
The world can be browsed via a window that is physically (m x n) large.
The browser window can be zoomed in / out
The browser window can be panned up/down + left right, while in the extents of the world's rect.

How should I go about implementing this? I'm especially concerned about the browser window. Can anyone recommend any good reads ?

This is not a homework - it's more of a task which I've set myself to complete.

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