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Laterral Author

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How to zoom and pan on Freeform on a Mac, using a normal mouse?

Most apps will allow you to pan with:

Middle mouse click drag OR
Right mouse click drag OR
Space + Left mouse click drag, etc.

None of these is implemented in Freeform. Neither for pan, nor for anything else.

Most apps will allow you to zoom with:

Middle mouse scroll OR
Cmd/ Alt/ Ctrl + Left muse click drag, etc.

None of these is implemented in Freeform. Neither for zoom, nor for anything else.

What am I missing? For an infinite canvas app, navigating the canvas intuitively/ easily seems to me to be quite an essential feature.

Posted on Jun 11, 2023 11:46 PM

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bonn128

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36 points

Posted on Jan 30, 2024 7:41 AM

They're assuming everyone is using a trackpad of some sort. In the development of this app, the fact that no one at Apple thought about the huge number of people wanting to use this app with a mouse is absolutely confounding. It's like writing a word processing app, but disabling the space bar. For me personally, it makes this app completely unusable. There have been so many examples of this sort of thing from Apple in recent years. So disappointing.

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