Zoom doen not focus on cursor.
Often when I am zooming in, although I place the cursor on the area I want to see, that area zooms out of sight.
The zoom should center on the cursor.
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Ciao, Ctrl+Shift+Weel?
Forget it, but you can see: https://musescore.org/en/node/137411
In reply to Ciao, Ctrl+Shift+Weel? Forget by Shoichi
Ctrl/shift/wheel and Ctrl/Wheel do not focus on the cursor.
They move sort of into the area, but they do not center the actual spot where the cursor is.
In reply to Ctrl/shift/wheel and by xavierjazz
I remember there being some changes to how this worked, where some people wanted one behavior but others wanted another. Personally I would not normally want the mouse to be the center of zooming - I normally position the mouse off the score in fact, so the pointer doesn't distract me. But I understand that others expect this for whatever reason. not sure what the best answer is. You might do a search to find other discussions of the topic, including in the issue tracker, where probably there are closed issues dating from when the current behavior was implemented.
In reply to I remember there being some by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc, I can't understand the use for an "unfocused" zoom. Surely when you zoom it is for a specific purpose, not just some random act.
At any rate, I zoom for specific needs (selection in a cluttered area, for example).
So when the area I am trying to enlarge moves off screen and I have to reposition the screen and zoom again (perhaps more than once), I find this frustrating.
In reply to Hi Marc, I can't understand by xavierjazz
Yes, but I read music left to right, top down, and the least disorienting thing to me when I zoom is to keep the top left corner visible. Otherwise I lose the context of what I am looking at. The position of the mouse is almost never even slightly relevant, because I use the mouse as little as possible, and as mentioned, normally have it completely off the screen to avoid the distraction of the mouse pointer or the possibility of errors caused by an inadvertent click. So it's not "unfocused"; it's focused exactly where I want it to be in order to keep my place.
I certainly recognize different people work differently and others may have different expectations, but it's important that *everyone* keep this in mind and not assume that just because something makes sense to them that it must to everyone. The trick is to find the best compromise, but that's tricky as well - for example, is it better to inconvenience a small number of people by a lot, or to inconvenience a lot of people by a small amount? I don't pretend to have the answers. I'm just pointing out it isn't as simple as just assuming the answer for everyone is to make the mouse pointer position relevant.
In reply to Ctrl/shift/wheel and by xavierjazz
about a year ago: https://musescore.org/en/node/83966
Most programs I've seen that let you zoom make the current mouse location the center of the zoom destination. I think that makes more sense.
In reply to Most programs I've seen that by mike320
That's a great description of what I was trying to say. Thanks.