Wish : Double click middle mouse button to fit to screen.

[Chris Goddard]

Wish : Double click middle mouse button to fit to screen.

In Eeschema and PCBNew the middle mouse button/wheel is used for zooming in and out and dragging the view around. It would be quite convenient to add double clicking to fit the schematic/board to the screen (in Eeschema, PcbNew and GeberView).

[Lorenzo Marcantonio (l-marcantonio)]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:49:49 +0200,
Chris Goddard wrote:
> In Eeschema and PCBNew the middle mouse button/wheel is used for zooming
> in and out and dragging the view around. It would be quite convenient to
> add double clicking to fit the schematic/board to the screen.

It could be done; in the meantime remember that that function is
available on the home key.

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
Logos Srl

[Chris Goddard (chriy)]

Yes, and also on the tool bar as an icon, but while navigating I have my hand on the mouse so would make for much faster navigation. I'm used to it from AutoCAD and it's very useful.

[Troy Denton (trdenton)]

Just assigned to myself - I've got a patch for eeschema, presently working on pcbnew to submit as a complete unit.

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

While we're at it, would middle-click to centre-on-cursor (currently only on a key: F4) be useful? I often find myself zooming out and in to reposition on a point.

[Gabriel Staples (ercaguy)]

What I'm about to propose is major scope creep, so if we decide to propose it let's make it a new issue/wishlist item by itself:

what if we made a more universal solution that covers the above desired cases, as well as nearly anything else? Perhaps add a "Mouse Buttons/Gestures" column to the right of the Hotkey column in the Hotkeys Preferences menu? See attached image.

AGAIN, this is major scope creep. So if we decide this is a good idea let's make it its own wishlist item on a new bug report.

[Troy Denton (trdenton)]

Gabriel - I like that idea, and I do agree that the scope of it warrants a wishlist item of it's own.

I'm still plugging away at the original scope :)

[John Gehrig (jdgehrig)]

Hey Troy, I took a look at this one and came up with a solution a month or two ago... I stalled on submitting my changes to the mailing list.

I have attached a patch for your reference (still needs a once-over before check-in). The patch should enable Double-Middle-Click-Zoom for all of the apps (Legacy and GAL). I had some concerns over how much code I was adding, as this area has seen lots of code churn for the GAL updates. My approach effectively had middle-click implemented twice for each app.

You've claimed this bug, so it's yours if you want it. :)

[Troy Denton (trdenton)]

Hey John, thank you for the patch! I will take a close look at it - hopefully my efforts were not far off

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1988