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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

In trunk/nightlies there is an option to have 2 finger pan instead of
zoom with pinch-to-zoom. Which makes the behaviour much better on osx
touchpads, While the speed of the zoom is annoying in stable i don't
think it will be backported into stable

Simon

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Adam
>
> I downloaded and installed both the kicad and kicad-extras.
>
> I opened kicad and it found the files I had been working on last. In the
> schematic view, I see that the two finger motion is linked to the zoom. If I
> hold the shift key down, the two finger drag works to move the schematic
> around in an intuitive manner (for me at least). Both up/down and sideways
> works fine - with limits when the edge of the paper shows on the screen.
> Thumbs up on all counts (except maybe the requirement for holding down the
> shift key).
>
> When I hold down the Command key, the two finger drag drives the image
> sideways, but in a direction opposite to the two finger drag.
>
> The zoom out - stops at a postage stamp size. Maybe this limit is too far..
> Zoom in stops at a reasonable point - label text is almost an inch high.
>
> ----
>
> Going to the pcb view, both default and openGl views link the two finger
> drag to the zoom. The maximum limit of the zoom makes text numbers about one
> foot wide. It is difficult to figure out where I am on a pad - the pad is
> several windows wide. The smaller limit is postage stamp size for a page.
>
> It seems that the trackpad to scroll/zoom is too sensitive. A one tick
> movement of the two fingers will move/zoom the image quite a way.
>
> Holding the shift key down converts the two finger drag to an up/down and
> sideways scroll on the default view, but on the openGL view, shift limits
> the scroll to up/down and Command limits the scroll to sideways. Not all
> that desirable as well as being inconsistent with the schematic motions.
>
> ------
>
> Thinking about the ReadMe on your Extras installation screen, I closed KiCad
> and then copied the ftp table into the local Library directory as requested.
>
> On re-opening KiCad, I can see the schematic, but somehow the pcb view was
> left in an ultrazoomed/scrolled state from my previous experiments (see
> above) - and I couldn't find my pcb. I tried zooming and scrolling. I saw
> big and small gridwork, but the pcb must have been left miles away -
> somewhere.
>
> I didn't get to test the footprints - but nothing crashed..
>
> My computer is a Macbook Air 11" with OSX 10.11.5 - using integral trackpad.
>
> Have fun
>
> Bob G
>
>
> On 06/15/2016 07:49 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> As you know, there have been some struggles testing what will become 4.0.3
> for OS X. :)  I think we got through them all!
>
> If someone so inclined could download "4.0.3 rc7" from
> http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/osx/stable/, and do a little testing, that
> would be awesome.
>
> I don't need a super deep test, mostly "Do the DMGs look alright?"  and
> "KiCad opened after I installed it through the DMGs."
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>
>
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