Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

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Drahken
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Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

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Is it possible to change the direction of the zoom when using the mousewheel? ie, When you hold the right mouse button & scroll the wheel down it zooms out, while scrolling up zooms in. I find this counter-intuitive & would prefer to reverse it. I can't find any option for that though.
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Re: Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

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In other software is it the same?
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Re: Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

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Except for an image zooming addon for firefox, I don't use most other programs enough to know whether or not they even have a mousewheel zoom, let alone which direction it goes. I just tested a couple progs I have & they go the same direction xnview currently does (although the firefox extension goes the opposite way). Still feels counter-intuitive to me though, no matter how many programs choose to do it that way.

It's not a big deal either way, I was just hoping there was some setting I could change.
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Re: Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

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I haven't done a survey, but occasionally encounter software where the scrolling behavior is reversed from the "standard". Switching between apps where the behavior differs can upset motor memory.

Perhaps an hidden INI option would be good.
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