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Zoom without ctrl

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February 10, 2021
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On PC i want to explore figma document with only mouse, but i can’t zoom in/out without keyboard - I have to hold down the Ctrl with the other hand. On a Mac, there is no problem: gestures on the touchpad make zooming convenient.

At the moment we can scroll through a document by dragging it with the left mouse button or by scrolling horizontally, but to scroll horizontally (which is also often used as vertical scrolling) you have to hold down Shift, which is rather illogical for a map-like interface.

Can you add a switch like the existing “Invert Zoom Direction”? That would solve my problem.

This feature was already requested in 2017: https://spectrum.chat/figma/feature-requests/zoom-with-mouse-wheel~04d1784d-827c-4363-9404-ffddc91bcfef

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Vlad

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Iya

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Thanks a lit for sharing! But would you agree simply zooming in&out can achieve what you are doing a little easier and is more straightforward?

Iya

Active Member

The reason I don’t like zooming while holding down a key is because I am moving around a lot.

PS & AI can work with alt key zoom is because people are pretty much always staying on one image. The demand to move is much smaller. They don’t have to jump between 30 frame to keep track of things.

esn1

we NEED this feature please

esn1

it doesn’t work. do i need to do anything else after running the script?

DanDixon

I just saw your post. Sorry, you’re having trouble getting it to work. Once you run the script, it should just work. I have this script set to run whenever I start Windows.

My script assumes you’ve got a recent copy of AutoHotKeys installed, are using Chrome or the Figma app, and that Figma is using a default dark color scheme (not sure you even can change that).

I just posted an updated script) that uses AutoHotKey v2 along with a zoom multiplier feature, easy way to turn the color debug tooltip on, and a quick text replacement test to see if AutoHotKey is working.

Try this:
1 - Confirm you’re running the latest version of AutoHotKeys. If in doubt, just install it again.

2 - Update your script to the latest version (copy and paste from the updated post above)

3 - Run the script. Then in notepad (or any text editor should work) type: ahktest (then a space or press enter)
That should be replaced with: Test Sucess - Autohotkeys is working

Does that help? Does the typing test work?

esn1

just wanted to give you a big thanks from the support and update, the scripts runs well, but i can’t make it to work on chrome (just in the app it works). but i take it! <3

Takahiro_Kinoshita

New Participant

This is a sensitive and very useful question. I have encountered these usages many times when using ipadmini and mouse. I would like to have this issue resolved.