Zooming on graphics tablet.

[al0fdf]

GIMP and Krita, BeeRef, and many other programs can zoom the canvas by pressing a button on the side of the stylus(maps to the middle mouse button on my laptop), and moving the mouse up to zoom in, and down to zoom out. Is this kind of modifier likely to be implemented in Pixelorama? Currently I resort to using the mouse wheel to zoom, which means I'm switching between my tablet and mouse quite often.

[BodyWin]

but isn't there this bar that you can drag to change the zoom? Or you are referring to something else?

[al0fdf]

I hadn't noticed that bar there before. It's quite small, but I guess I can use it for the time being. The way the zoom works in GIMP, is that:

• Ctrl + Middle Mouse Button + Move the mouse up zooms in
• Ctrl + Middle Mouse Button + Move the mouse down zooms out

Here, the middle mouse button is the button on my stylus.

This differs from pixelorama where:

• Zoom Tool + Left Mouse Button + Move the mouse left zooms in
• Zoom Tool + Left Mouse Button + Move the mouse right zooms out

So the features I'm looking for are:

• Activate the zoom tool when Ctrl + Middle Mouse Button are pressed
• Option to specify moving mouse up/down instead of left/right to use the zoom

[Variable-ind]

this functionality is possible only when you have the zoom tool selected

[BodyWin]

Then, I will make it for everything, whatever the tool is.
Also, this is great that you spotted this

[al0fdf]

The zoom tool also uses the left/right mouse movement instead of up/down mouse movement for zooming.

[thibault]

I also would find this feature very useful.

I'm kinda new to drawing tablets and pen, but I started using them because of some joint pain. In Gimp / Krita, the move / zoom feature is really intuitive once you get the hang of it: you can just drag your drawing, zoom in and out, all that without moving the pen out of the drawing zone.

Having to use the top slider for zooming is much less confortable. It forces for much back and force between the drawing zone and the zooming tool. Also, it won't allow you to zoom on a specific drawing point, hence you need more dragging movements after zooming.

So this is my way of saying "+1" I guess :)

I recently discovered Pixelorama and I'm impressed by how nice this software is. Thank you.