Zooming problems; getting inconsistent zoom results using axlZoomToDbid

Hi all,

I am working on my first SKILL program, so please don't bloody me too much if I am doing something silly :) I haven't written much code as I am a hardware engineer, but I'm the only person at a small company who's looked at SKILL so here I am. I have looked at several of the SKILL programs on SourceLink and I was quickly able to get a basic feel for the programs and understand what several of them are doing.

I want to zoom in on an object, so I reached for the apparently perfect axlZoomToDbid command using:

axlZoomToDbid(<object> t)

It wants to work as I am zooming in on the objects, but the amount of zooming varies greatly. The description of the command says the object will fill about 20% of the screen. For me, some components fill up the screen entirely and others are very small. But the component is definitely being centered on the screen, so I'm confident the command is working at some level.

 Can anyone else confirm this behavior? Has anyone used zxlZoomToDbid before? Perhaps it is related to another setting, like User Prefs > Ui folder > Zoom folder > buttonfactor which were added to PCB Editor after axlZoomToDbid was introduced? I tried changing the settings I thought might help but I didn't find the right one.

In lieu of using that seemingly simple command, I calculated coordinates a bit around the object's extents and saved the 4 points as variables x1, y1, x2, and y2. I thought I could use those coordinates and axlShell to zoom by points. But I wasn't able to pass along the variables using either:

;axlShell("zoom points; pick x1 y1; pick x2 y2") OR ;axlShell("zoom points; pick %f %f; pick %f %f" x1 y1 x2 y2)

It seems like one of the above ought to work, but it doesn't. I know I've got the right coordinate data in the variables because when I run the second line above I see the correct coordinates in the Command Window, but those coordinates aren't getting into the zoom points command.

I'd prefer to use axlZoomToDbid if possible, since it's a shiny new (well, since 15.0) command and it takes 4 less lines of code, but if anyone else can get my second option working or has a completely different solution please let me know. Thank you!