Hi Ned, > Zooming with the mouse. > > I was just at a recording session at a friend's place and he was using DP3. > One thing that blew my mind was how he could zoom in and out by scrolling > the mouse up/down or sideways (this obviously also requires holding down a > key with the left/right hand). It's a little thing, but it sure would make > my life easier.. > In case you don't already know about it, you can already do "sorta" this exact same thing in Logic. Hold down the control key and "scroll with the mouse" to zoom. Holding down the control key in Logic is a permamnet assignment for toggling the magnifier tool. So hold down the control key and draw a rectangle around what you want to zoom in on. So it's not exactly "scrolling" as much as it is "drawing rectangles around what you want to zoom in on". Also what's cool about this is that you can do it more than once and then step backwards through your zoom steps by control clicking in the background. Also, on a related note, one cool key command that I keep meaning to make a mental note of getting in the habit of using more often is the "zoom to fit selection" command. -- Eli Krantzberg Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com

On a fine day, 04-02-2003, Eli Krantzberg wrote: > > Zooming with the mouse. >> >> I was just at a recording session at a friend's place and he was using DP3. >> One thing that blew my mind was how he could zoom in and out by scrolling >> the mouse up/down or sideways (this obviously also requires holding down a >> key with the left/right hand). It's a little thing, but it sure would make > > my life easier.. > >In case you don't already know about it, you can already do "sorta" >this exact same thing in Logic. Hold down the control key and >"scroll with the mouse" to zoom. Holding down the control key in >Logic is a permamnet assignment for toggling the magnifier tool. So >hold down the control key and draw a rectangle around what you want >to zoom in on. I have a Wacom Graphire tablet with mouse and pen (a very cheap combo which works a treat), and have the mousewheel set to do control-leftarrow and control-rightarrow keystrokes, which are my horizontal zoom commands -- i.e. the scrollwheel zooms in and out... Not as convenient as modifier-mousemove maybe, but still quite handy. The right mousebutton can be set to do the 'option' key, so I'd hoped to be able to do "right button plus scrollwheel" = option-ctrl-arrow which I would then assign to vertial zoom -- that way being able to hor. zoom with the wheel, and vertical zoom with rightbutton+wheel. Unfortunately that doesn't work for some reason. Even pressing option on the keyboard and simultaneously rolling the wheel doesn't yield opt-ctrl-arrow. Oh well, having horizontal zoom on the wheel already is nice enough. Right button is now escape, bringing up the toolbox under the mouse. -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com

Eli Krantzberg wrote: > In case you don't already know about it, you can already do "sorta" this > exact same thing in Logic. Hold down the control key and "scroll with the > mouse" to zoom. Holding down the control key in Logic is a permamnet > assignment for toggling the magnifier tool. So hold down the control key > and draw a rectangle around what you want to zoom in on. Thanks Eli, I use the rectangle drawing command all the time. Believe me, the DP mouse zoom is more direct: kind of like the difference between pitch-shifting a sample and moving a vinyl record on a turntable! Thanks also for the reminder about zoom to fit selection - I'll make a key command for that! Ned http://www.nedfx.com Ned Bouhalassa n e d @ n e d f x . c o m

> Zooming with the mouse. Why not just program it as a function of a Kensington Expert Mouse's extra buttons? You can program key commands and keyboard macros into any of its ten extra buttons.

technodork_2000 wrote: > Why not just program it as a function of a Kensington Expert > Mouse's extra buttons? You can program key commands and > keyboard macros into any of its ten extra buttons. TD, You still have to draw a rectangle around the objects, no? Next time you're around someone who uses the latest version of DP3, ask them for a demonstation - you'll see what I mean. Ned PS: And they don't have to have a particular mouse to do this. http://www.nedfx.com Ned Bouhalassa n e d @ n e d f x . c o m