Prefence toogle to change the mouse-wheel behaviour between panning and zooming

[MEB]

I would like to suggest a new preference option to toggle between the panning and zooming functions for the mouse wheel/magic mouse. The reasoning behind this is using the mouse wheel/magic mouse to zoom rather than panning is more efficient since when we are zooming an area the screen automatically pans to the cursor position (usually already in the area we are working on) almost eliminating the need for panning adjustments. This combined with the spacebar+drag for panning when needed (which already is implemented) is quite efficient because the spacebar is an easy target.

 

I've used this combination first in Autocad from Autodesk and still haven't found a faster way to do it since (without using shortcuts and modifiers which i prefer to reserve for more complex and less frequent operations.

[Matthias]

I agree. Zooming with the magic mouse is a good idea.

 

Still think cmd-space and alt-space for toggling the tool to zoom-in and zoom-out should also be there. Some (like me) prefer a Wacom pen over a mouse and they’d be left in the dust.

[TonyB]

Alt + magic mouse scroll should zoom. 

[MEB]

TonyB,

Yes, i´m aware of that, what i'm proposing is a preference to invert that behaviour: zoom in/out with mouse scroll by default and pressing Alt to use the magic mouse scroll for panning.

This because zooming in/out automatically pans to the cursor position, so almost no pan adjustments are needed since usually we already have the cursor where we are working on.

This helps control the whole thing just with the mouse zoom without pressing any additional key.