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Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:09 am
by Drahken
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.

Re: Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:53 pm
by xnview
In other software is it the same?

Re: Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:49 pm
by Drahken
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.

Re: Can I change wheel/zoom direction?

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:15 pm
by JohnFredC
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.