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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I agree clicking with the middle mouse button is not particularly easy
but doable. I would not mind assigning a function to the button, but we
need choose carefully, since it is likely to stay for a long time. I am
sure that changing the behavior later will cause a rage coming from
users that got used to it.

Any other ideas what else could be assigned to the middle mouse button?

Cheers,
Orson

On 03/20/2017 08:31 PM, John Beard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are two patches:
> 
> * "Zoom to fit" on double middle click: resolves the Pcbnew side of
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1480868. Apparently this is an
> AutoCAD thing, so it may make lots of people more are home in KiCad.
> * "Centre on cursor" on middle single click. This is something I made
> up out of thin air, but it allows people who don't like the
> warp-on-zoom behaviour to be able to quickly recentre the view using
> only the mouse.
> 
> Both these actions are already available from the keyboard (Home and
> F4). I think ideally these would be configurable as well but there's
> no framework for that right now.
> 
> The legacy canvas side is rather more complex, so I haven't attempted it here.
> 
> My mouse's middle click is pretty terrible, so I rarely use it, and so
> I'm a bad judge of how useful these patches really are. Fell free to
> comment on/reject either patch.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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