Scaling Zoom - no effect and usability advice

Ingolf

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I've been trying to make sense of this setting. I turned off different settings too, e.g. so I can zoom in and out just by holding down the mouse button. But I see no effect of the setting whatever settings I use.

Further, the tooltip gives a technical explanation. The explanation in the tooltip and manual should be something like "Enable to <whatever it does>. Multiplies zoom level by zoom factor." If it makes some kind of zooming faster, avoid technical labels like "scaled" and use something like accellerated zoom instead that makes it obvious what it does.

By the way, it should be considered that the settings that are blocked by other settings are greyed out. Not the perfect solution, but a better explanation that it will have no effect (not enabled) than... no effect in the program after enabling it.

VectorStyler

@Ingolf This affects what happens when clicking with the zoom tool.
When disabled, the zoom is incremented / decremented by a fixed amount.
When enabled, the zoom is changed relative to the current zoom.

I have to find a better name for it.

Ingolf

Allright but what will I experience in reality when it is enabled?

VectorStyler

@Ingolf When clicking with the zoom tool (or Option+click) you get much larger changes in the zoom amount (shown in the title area), if the zoom is large and Scaled Zoom is enabled.

Follow how the zoom level changes with clicks in different Scale Zoom modes.

Ingolf

Ah I see now.

Igull

@Ingolf

FWIW, it was something I had asked for when using the area zoom tool (my preference rather than scrolling or scrubby zoom).
I have the click level set to 150% - that works best for my situation.

Neil

Ingolf

@Igull said in Scaling Zoom - no effect and usability advice:

@Ingolf
FWIW, it was something I had asked for when using the area zoom tool (my preference rather than scrolling or scrubby zoom).
I have the click level set to 150% - that works best for my situation.

Thanks, now I see how it works with that description.

Ingolf

@VectorStyler said in Scaling Zoom - no effect and usability advice:

I have to find a better name for it.

Perhaps dynamic zoom?