On Tuesday, 23 Apr 2002, Raphaël Quinet wrote:

- Behave as if the zoom tool had been used temporarily: if the mouse pointer is inside the image window when the shortcut key is used, then zoom in on that point. If not, then zoom in on the center of the window.

This has pissed me off for some time too. All Apple Mac applications I know of zoom centred on the current pointer location. Expert users can use this to zoom+scroll quite naturally, and novice users just think it's zooming centred on the image but not quite right.

If the mouse isn't in the image window, then doing a normal "zoom centred" is probably best.

Trying to guess that the selection is up to is a recipe for disaster, as noted in the many special cases in the bug report.

I can't remember the Mac behaviour on zoom out. I don't suppose it matters too much there, though.

Austin

Hi,

Austin Donnelly writes:

- Behave as if the zoom tool had been used temporarily: if the mouse pointer is inside the image window when the shortcut key is used, then zoom in on that point. If not, then zoom in on the center of the window.

This has pissed me off for some time too. All Apple Mac applications I know of zoom centred on the current pointer location. Expert users can use this to zoom+scroll quite naturally, and novice users just think it's zooming centred on the image but not quite right.

If the mouse isn't in the image window, then doing a normal "zoom centred" is probably best.

Trying to guess that the selection is up to is a recipe for disaster, as noted in the many special cases in the bug report.

ack. Who writes the patch?

Salut, Sven

On , 23 Apr 2002, Sven Neumann wrote:

ack. Who writes the patch?

Sorry, not me - lack of time :(

Austin

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 12:29, Austin Donnelly wrote: On Tuesday, 23 Apr 2002, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> - Behave as if the zoom tool had been used temporarily: if the mouse > pointer is inside the image window when the shortcut key is used, then > zoom in on that point. If not, then zoom in on the center of the window.
This has pissed me off for some time too. All Apple Mac applications I know of zoom centred on the current pointer location. Expert users can use this to zoom+scroll quite naturally, and novice users just think it's zooming centred on the image but not quite right.

For the record, I would probably like "zoom on pointer" since then you can avoid the panning-after-zooming to find the place of the image. And that is how the zoom tool works too, doesnt it already zoom centered on where you click? I mean, I dont know since I never use it, being so used to the shortcuts.

If the mouse isn't in the image window, then doing a normal "zoom centred" is probably best.

This pretty much implies "click to focus" :-) Yea, then centered on the current viewport (we could be partially zoomed in already)
Trying to guess that the selection is up to is a recipe for disaster, as noted in the many special cases in the bug report.
I can't remember the Mac behaviour on zoom out. I don't suppose it matters too much there, though.

Btw, I looked at Illustrator 9, it zooms always centered, no matter where your mouse is. Both for zoom in and zoom out (when you use the keyboard shortcuts that is, using the zoom tool naturally zooms centered on where you click like we do too)

But illustrator has a shortcut to the zoom tool, so I never use the Cmd-+ to zoom in; I press and hold Cmd-space so Illustrator temporarily switches to zoom-in tool, and I click. Therefore I always do "click to zoom" and it centers around where I clicked. Zoom out happens when you hold down Cmd-Alt-Space - those are pretty handy once you get used to them. Much like our "Ctrl to pick color" -shortcut.

But it is not that big of a deal for me. Maybe it might be a good thing to zoom centered on the pointer. I just zoom in all the way and use the navi popup (which is *great* by the way) to find the right spot.

Tuomas

tigert@ximian.com (2002-04-24 at 1306.29 +0300):

For the record, I would probably like "zoom on pointer" since then you can avoid the panning-after-zooming to find the place of the image. And

Yes, it would be great, place where you want, hit key and zoom there. Saves the switch to zoom tool and back.

that is how the zoom tool works too, doesnt it already zoom centered on where you click? I mean, I dont know since I never use it, being so used to the shortcuts.

It does, where you click becomes the centre of the window.

I think too that zoom should track mouse, or if mouse is out (sloppy focus, ie, or over widgets around image) zoom based in centre.

GSR