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Hold/Release action on pan tool, and zoom gesture

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Kirizaki
Marketplace Creator
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here that uses a pen tablet all the time on the PC - at least with a lot of artists selling assets arround the marketplace I can't be - sure I can use a mouse, but I'm way more used to it whenever I'm in any graphics software like photoshop or illustrator, things like moving, rotating, resizing things, pan, zoom, are much more intuitive to me on a pen tablet than on a mouse. Roll20 is hard to use with one, so why not adapt a few things to better accommodate this kind of user? I'm talking about cheaper ones without any touch function, that enables you to pinch zoom or related gestures. I don't believe it's easy, if possible, on a software that runs on a browser, to detect the kind of pointing device being used, so my suggestions are acutally related to the interface: Hold/Release action on pan tool  - The pan tool works as it should, but having to switch to it pressing A, then press S to switch back to the selection tool is confusing. The default behavior for this in any software I know is, you hold a key to use the tool and release to return to the previous one you were using, you need to tap the shortcut to actually switch, that way you only need to set a single shortcut to the pen buttons. If possible, setting this shortcut to the spacebar would be awesome. Zoom gesture  - The current shortcut is hold Alt+Scroll Wheel to zoom in/out. A pen does not have a scroll wheel, so most graphics softwares have an option to hold Alt+[hand shortcut]+[drag the to screen right/left or up/down] zoom in/out. This makes it a lot easier, because you can just hold Alt+[pen button with the hand shortcut] to zoom in/out. I found this  chrome extension  that helps, but whenever I use it a lot it bugs the cursor inside roll20 editor, causing the click to happen way off the cursor, which is quite annoying and I have to use the actual platform tool a little for it to go away. It does not allow me to zoom but it's a start - If someone knows some extension that does that I would be thankful. The zoom gesture would be a new feature, so I think it's harder to do, but changing the pan tool behavior would be cool already.
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Roll20 Dev Team
Pro
Marketplace Creator
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