Mouse wheel, scrolling and zooming

[Andre Majorel]

On 2010-08-24 14:57 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2010, at 08:35, Andre Majorel wrote:
> 
> > What would you use in an application to scroll in two dimensions
> > and zoom in/out with the mouse wheel ?
> 
> FWIW, the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines recommends:
> 
> * Ctrl+scrollwheel-up should zoom into the window or control
> under the mouse pointer, and Ctrl+scrollwheel-down should zoom
> out. Zooming in this way should not move keyboard focus to the
> window or control being zoomed.
> 
> They have no current recommendation for horizontal scrolling.
> 
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html.en#mouse-buttons

Thanks. I've since discovered a non-KDE application that uses
[alt]-[wheel] for horizontal scrolling ; Battle for Wesnoth. I
don't think it uses a toolkit, it's an SDL app.

Maybe [alt]-[wheel] is standard on other platforms ?

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/