Who’s going to be toggling this smoothing option so frequently that they need a keyboard shortcut?Īnd even if it really does deserve a system-wide shortcut, it ought to be configurable using the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse prefs panel. For one thing, I don’t see why this particular option is so important that it deserves a system-wide keyboard shortcut. Minor system updates shouldn’t just gobble up keyboard shortcuts like this.
That’s a problem if you’re using any applications that use this keystroke - and since BBEdit 2 and Mailsmith use this for the Hard Wrap command, and I’ve got about 10 years of muscle memory using this command with this shortcut every single day, it’s a problem for me. If you turn the “Zoom using scroll wheel” option on, this keyboard shortcut is applied system-wide, even when you aren’t zooming. My only gripe is the ⌘⌥\ (Command-Option-Backslash) shortcut attached to the smoothing option. If you zoom just a little bit and let go of the modifier key, it snaps back to no zoom - this seems like a sensible defense against accidental zooms. Overall, the feature works great having zoom available at a moment’s notice is a bit more convenient than firing up a utility like xScope or Art Directors Toolkit. If you’re using this feature as I intend to, to examine pixel-level layout details, it’s best to leave this off. The name is a bit misleading - it doesn’t just smooth images, it smooths (a.k.a. The other option is a checkbox labeled “Smooth images (Press ⌘⌥\ to turn smoothing on or off)”.
The first is a set of radio buttons to determine how the zoomed screen scrolls when you move your mouse I find the default setting, “Continuously with the pointer”, works best. The Options button opens a sheet with a few additional preference settings. You can’t set it to only use Shift, but you can use Shift in conjunction with one or more of the other modifiers. The modifier picker is a combo box - the drop-down menu lets you choose between Control, Option, and Command, but when the combo box has focus, you can specify multiple modifier keys simply by pressing them on your keyboard. It’s on by default, with the “while holding” modifer key set to Control.
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Here’s a new feature in the Mac OS X 10.4.8 mouse preferences panel: 1 “Zoom using scroll wheel”: New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll Wheel Friday, 29 September 2006
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