Reaper - how does "zoom centre on mouse cursor" work
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2357 posts since 24 Nov, 2012
Hi I am trying to find a way that the main window will centre on the mouse cursor when I use the mousewheel to zoom
I was hoping that the preference Horizontal Zoom Centre > Mouse Cursor would do the trick but it either does something different or is being blocked by some other preference
Does anyone know if there is a setting that will allow one to move the mouse cursor and start zooming with the screen centreing about the position of the mouse cursor?
example of what I want: move cursor to item on the far right, start zoom with mousewheel > item goes to centre of main window and zooms in
thanks
I was hoping that the preference Horizontal Zoom Centre > Mouse Cursor would do the trick but it either does something different or is being blocked by some other preference
Does anyone know if there is a setting that will allow one to move the mouse cursor and start zooming with the screen centreing about the position of the mouse cursor?
example of what I want: move cursor to item on the far right, start zoom with mousewheel > item goes to centre of main window and zooms in
thanks
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- KVRAF
- 1894 posts since 12 Mar, 2004
yeah, you are doing it wrong, zoom at mouse cursor won't actually centre the item under the mouse cursor.
You have actions for that
Zoom item
View zoom to item
Personally i would suggest installing SWS, where you get even more zooming actions
You have actions for that
Zoom item
View zoom to item
Personally i would suggest installing SWS, where you get even more zooming actions
Duh
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2357 posts since 24 Nov, 2012
thanks, that doesn't do what I want either, I need to zoom in horizontally and see the item under the cursor - not necessarily selected - in the context of other items.bungle wrote:yeah, you are doing it wrong, zoom at mouse cursor won't actually centre the item under the mouse cursor.
You have actions for that
Zoom item
View zoom to item
Personally i would suggest installing SWS, where you get even more zooming actions
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2357 posts since 24 Nov, 2012
good to hear it, really thrilled for you. I will tell my computer to stop being naughty and behave like the good computer Chris-S hasChris-S wrote:Works for me.....woggle wrote: I was hoping that the preference Horizontal Zoom Centre > Mouse Cursor would do the trick
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- KVRAF
- 4507 posts since 3 Oct, 2013 from Budapest
"Where we're workarounding, we don't NEED features." - powermat
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2357 posts since 24 Nov, 2012
Thanks, yes it is working like that and mine does that too, just was not what I was looking for as mentioned in the first post
"example of what I want: move cursor to item on the far right, start zoom with mousewheel > item goes to centre of main window and zooms in"
The workaround for me is to use the mousewheel as you show and then drag at the top of the window to centre the item.
"example of what I want: move cursor to item on the far right, start zoom with mousewheel > item goes to centre of main window and zooms in"
The workaround for me is to use the mousewheel as you show and then drag at the top of the window to centre the item.
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- KVRist
- 107 posts since 28 Aug, 2014
+1
Don't want to hijack the thread but I believe I'm looking for exactly the same thing, particularly in the midi view. When I edit drums, for example, and I add a short note, say, 1/16 I often cannot even edit the note I've drawn, because it's way to small. But when I use the wheel of my trackball to zoom in, the new note wanders out of the display unless it happens to be exactly in the center.
It's fairly annoying and I've been wondering for a while already whether I'm doing something "systematically wrong".
Don't want to hijack the thread but I believe I'm looking for exactly the same thing, particularly in the midi view. When I edit drums, for example, and I add a short note, say, 1/16 I often cannot even edit the note I've drawn, because it's way to small. But when I use the wheel of my trackball to zoom in, the new note wanders out of the display unless it happens to be exactly in the center.
It's fairly annoying and I've been wondering for a while already whether I'm doing something "systematically wrong".
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2357 posts since 24 Nov, 2012
I can't remember how I got mine working - it works on midi as well, I just checked.JohnD71651 wrote:+1
Don't want to hijack the thread but I believe I'm looking for exactly the same thing, particularly in the midi view. When I edit drums, for example, and I add a short note, say, 1/16 I often cannot even edit the note I've drawn, because it's way to small. But when I use the wheel of my trackball to zoom in, the new note wanders out of the display unless it happens to be exactly in the center.
It's fairly annoying and I've been wondering for a while already whether I'm doing something "systematically wrong".
I have horizontal zoom center = mouse cursor in editing behavior preferences
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mousewheel targets window under cursor in preferences > mouse
and in the actions I have mousewheel = zoom horizontally midi cc relative/mousewheel
- KVRAF
- 3060 posts since 10 Nov, 2013 from Germany
Nice video explaining all the different options:
https://youtu.be/1_ElH-fMjhc?t=3m05s
https://youtu.be/1_ElH-fMjhc?t=3m05s