Would it possible to have the scroll wheel zoom with the option key?
I normally use the scroll wheel to scroll around the image and use command +/- to zoom in and out, however the 25% zoom increment on the scroll wheel is much more useful than 100% with the keys.
Also in MacDraw II you could hold down the option key and select a stroke color to change the stroke of the selected graphic. With Intaglio I find it a bit slow to select the appropriate “Paint” box in the fill or stroke palettes, before I select a color and I never remember which one I have selected before.
Styles has changed the way I manage different types of graphics in a document and is one of my favorite new features, can it be made more accessible? a palette would be good or possibly a style tool that could get and set styles, a bit like the eyedropper.
Yes I can’t stand it when a application has a zoom on the scroll wheel
that doesn’t
scroll where the mouse is placed. You have to scroll then move the
window, scroll
again etc.
A nice touch also I suppose is to be able to call up the zoom tool
with a contextual right
click of the mouse too (as well as the text tool!) ;¬) .
On 18 Jun 2008, at 17:28, RB wrote:
Agreed - it would be great. For now I use CMD +/- for zooming (v.
2.9.7),
which does center on the selected item, but again that’s extra
movement.
on 6/17/08 6:11 PM, Tom Fenn at email@hidden wrote:
Yes please!!!
Please?? With zoom that zooms where the mouse is placed rather than
just
from the centre?
On 17 Jun 2008, at 23:47, Rob Carruthers wrote:
Would it possible to have the scroll wheel zoom with the option key?
Would it possible to have the scroll wheel zoom with the option key?
Is that the way it should always work or should that be an addition option to the existing choices? Anybody have an opinion?
Also in MacDraw II you could hold down the option key and select a stroke color to change the stroke of the selected graphic. With Intaglio I find it a bit slow to select the appropriate “Paint” box in the fill or stroke palettes, before I select a color and I never remember which one I have selected before.
That’s reasonable (the eyedropper works that way already), as long as a “paint well” hasn’t been selected. There’s a small gray halo around any selected well so you can tell which you selected before.
With zoom that zooms where the mouse is placed rather than just from the centre?
The current behavior attempt to keep the point under the cursor stationary in the window. For example, if you hold the cursor over an object and zoom with the scroll wheel you the point under the cursor should remain under the cursor as you zoom (unless you zoom down to a point where the page doesn’t fill the window).
A nice touch also I suppose is to be able to call up the zoom tool with a contextual right click of the mouse too (as well as the text tool!) ;¬)
I guess the zoom submenu (of the layout menu) could be part of the contextual menus. It’s hard to know what the best contextual menus are because different people will have different ideas.
Regarding the text tool, since you’re going to have your hands are the keyboard anyway, I would think the current shortcuts would work pretty well. You can jump to the text tool by pressing the T key or press the return key to start a new text block centered on the current selection.
Is that the way it should always work or should that be an addition option to the existing choices? Anybody have an opinion?
If it was an addition to the current preferences (off by default) it would not change the way current users expect the App to work, but you could argue that the feature is not easy to stumble onto and only users that are aware of the option key’s power would look for it.
I suppose from a new user’s perspective it might be less intimidating if it wasn’t turned on by default, however I note that both Illustrator and Photoshop allow XY scrolling and zoom with the Option key by default, but only PS has a preference to change the behavior.
So my vote is, on by default with an preference to turn it off.
That’s reasonable (the eyedropper works that way already), as long as a “paint well” hasn’t been selected. There’s a small gray halo around any selected well so you can tell which you selected before.
I was unaware the eyedropper worked like that. That is the functionality I mean, so with the selection tool, whenever the user clicks a color in the Colors palette, the fill of the selected graphics changes and with the option key the stroke changes.