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How to change zoom in EM viewer with scroll wheel

ChunyangDing
ChunyangDing 10 months ago

Currently, the default behavior in AWR MWO 22.1 is for the mouse scroll wheel to move the viewing area up and down. Furthermore, if you hold down ctrl- while using the scroll wheel, it allows you to zoom in and out. Is there an option to flip these controls, such that the default behavior of the mouse scroll wheel zooms, while ctrl- shifts up and down? 

This is the opposite behavior to some other gds layout software (kLayout, Adobe's DWG TrueView), and it's always a bit confusing when bouncing between the programs to remember to hold ctrl. 

I looked under Tools -> Hotkeys, and I do see that Number+ and Number- also allows me to zoom. However, I could not change the behavior of the mouse scroll wheel. 

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    +1 CurtisAWR 10 months ago

    This particular option is available in the Environment Options area.  Go to Options > Environment Options > Mouse tab.  Change the "Zoom Modifier Key" setting to "None" and the "Vertical Scroll Modifier Key" to "Ctrl."  I believe this is what you are describing.

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    0 ChunyangDing 10 months ago in reply to CurtisAWR

    Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

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    0 ChunyangDing 10 months ago in reply to CurtisAWR

    Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

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