shift-zoom

[Paul Gilmartin]

In Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) with Stellarium 0.12.1 I was able to press SHIFT
and while holding SHIFT alternately press PGUP and PGDN to zoom in or out
slowly. In 0.12.2, I must first press PGUP or PGDN to get the same effect; a
less convenient interaction than 0.12.1.

With 0.12.2 on Ubuntu Linux, SHIFT-PGUP and SHIFT-PGDN don't work at all.

Thanks,
gil

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Shortcuts (Shift|Ctrl)+(PgUp|PgDown) are used in the Oculars plugin. You can delete or edit these shortcuts.

[Paul Gilmartin (paulgboulder)]

The behavior persisted through installation of 0.12.4. Then I
got tired of it and deleted my entire stellarium configuration
directory and re-created. Shift-PGUP and Shift-PGDN now work
nicely. (I didn't save the older configuration.)

"Oculars" seems irrelevant,

Thanks,
gil

[Paul Gilmartin (paulgboulder)]

More experimenting; more strange interactions. If "Oculars; load at startup = true",
(the default) shift-PgUp for slow zoom is disabled. To enable it, I must uncheck
"Oculars; load at startup"; save configuration; exit Stellarium; relaunch Stellarium.

Then, if Stellarium starts in fullscreen mode (the default), shift-PgUp is still disabled
until I either:
o select an object (mouse 1) then unselect it (mouse 3), or:
o exit (and possibly re-enter) fullscreen mode.

(Stellarium 0.12.4; Mac OS X 10.6.8)

(Knowing the techniques reduces it from a medium nuisance to a minor nuisance.)

Thanks,
Paul Gilmartin

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Sorry, but are you read my answer?

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Actually, you can't change those keys in the Oculars plug-in, as they are hard-coded, not defined as action shortcuts (which would make them editable in the shortcut keys configuration window). Look at Oculars::handleKeys(), Alex. I think that the problem is that Oculars is intercepting keys even when ocular mode is not currently active, though I haven't looked at the code in detail.