[Bf-funboard] Please add a Zoom Border zoom out

[Reiner]

Well. Blender already has the Zoom border tool. So it`s not the question 
to add it or not. It is already there. But it is incomplete. Zoom out is 
missing. Thus my request.

Rectangle zoom with zoom in and out works like charm in other apps since 
years. It`s a very fast and efficient way to navigate that i don`t want 
to miss anymore. I barely touch normal zoom tools in my favourite 
modeler anymore. Rectangle zoom is so much faster and more efficient. 
You can define the zoom amount by the size of the rectangle, and capture 
the area that you want to see. By that you also define to where it 
zooms. No extra navigation required. This is really much quicker and 
more intuitive once you tried it a few times, compared to the classical 
zoom. Which needs much more mouse action for the same thing. Normal zoom 
also requires a hotkey to activate it. So there is not really a 
difference here.

Zooming out is simply doing the opposite of zooming in, valueswise. 
Let`s say you drag the rectangle to half of the size of the screen to 
zoom in. Then the screen zooms in until this half of size is full size 
of the screen now. Now elt`s drag the rectangle to half of the size of 
the screen to zoom out. Then the screen zooms out until it is double the 
size of the rectangle. You don`t need to draw the rectangle above the 
borders of the screen for that. Hope that explains it a bit.

The good thing is, when you don`t have a need for a tool then nobody 
forces you to use it. Others may have a need for it though. I have :)

Am 08.08.2012 18:37, schrieb Bassam Kurdali:
> -1
> Sorry I just don't understand how this is intuitive.
> Zoom border is neither zoom in or zoom out; we already have interface
> for these; rather, zoom border does what it says on the tin. zoom to the
> border drawn on the screen. how does this map to zooming out? you can't
> draw a border bigger than the screen, and you can't really specify the
> rectangle ... this should be renamed 'really inefficient zoom out that
> requires a hotkey'
> Please don't do it.
>
> On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 13:52 +0200, Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Sounds good, would use MMB to zoom out though, this is consistant with
>> select==LMB and deselect == MMB, It also wont mess with existing use
>> where you dont have to care which way you draw the rectangle.
>>
>> This is a nice project for a new blender dev :)
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Reiner <reiner.prokein at t-online.de> wrote:
>>> The Zoom border tool currently just supports zoom in. But that`s just
>>> half of the show. Zoom border in in combination with Zoom border out
>>> would allow a very quick navigation.
>>>
>>> UI wise there would be not this much to change. A rectangle dragged from
>>> left to right could allow to zoom in, giving you a positive value. A
>>> rectangle, dragged from right to left, could allow to zoom out, giving
>>> you a negative value.
>>>
>>> Thanks for considering
>>>
>>> Tiles
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