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ALT+Drag Box Zoom, aka, zoom to box

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bManic ·

This would be a very handy feature. It's how Logic Audio uses zoom in all it's windows. Very powerful and easy, just hold ALT and drag a box around whatever you want to zoom to. To zoom out just hold ALT again and click on an empty part of schematic.

If this zoom could also be somehow added to the VST effects/instrument and standalone EXE export it would be way cool. We could build some pretty unique instruments with zoom levels. Imagine this: Instead of multiple pages and messy panels we could build quite big panels and let the user zoom in quickly to whatever part he want's to edit.

Combined with the paged panel (several pages) one page could be the 'simple synth' and the other page a heavily zoomed out version with the whole architecture at the users controll. All this without having a huge VST window in the host.

Cheers! bManic

bManic ·

The reason the drag zoom in VST plugin mode would be usefull is mostly for a circuit diagram or something else that has lots of info and is not practical to do over several pages. I agree that it might not be the best way to do things but I just put the idea down as I tend to forget stuff quickly 🙂 .

Cheers! bManic

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