Zooming the map

It would be nice if the mouse wheel controlled the zoom - level of the map as it does on countless other games and applications. It's current functionality of scrolling vertically is almost useless.

Good Idea! +1 Zooming the map with the mouse wheel would be far more convenient than having to select it from the toolbar.

+1

Zooming with the mouse wheel would lead to not being able to scroll through the map screen, which would be a great loss.

Onepage, as I responded in the other thread, mouse wheel zooming should not prevent you from scrolling through the map. Are you using Ctrl+mousewheel or Alt+mousewheel?

Its a matter of convenience. If you want to scroll vertically or horizontally you don't have to select from the toolbar, you just grab and drag. However if you want to zoom you have to select from the toolbar or hit alt, there's no way of doing it with the mouse alone. Assigning zoom to the mouse-wheel (which is standard for countless applications) would make Roll20 more convenient to use and scrolling could still be done with only the mouse.

If implemented, it would probably be desirable to make the wheel do what makes the most sense in a given context. When the pointer is touching the map, a scroll-zoom would be similar to the functionality in Google Maps, for example, to which which many users would be accustomed. However, when the pointer is over another part of the window that contains, for example, a list, such as the initiative order, many users would expect the wheel to scroll through the list.

Agreed, that would be even better.

Roll20 announced on Twitter today that Zooming will be improved in the next update (!!). <a href="http://www.gfycat.com/GroundedTenderAmericantoad" rel="nofollow">http://www.gfycat.com/GroundedTenderAmericantoad</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/roll20app/statuses/47892997710" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/roll20app/statuses/47892997710</a>... "We're finally fixing our zoom centering in the next update :-)" Exciting news. Thought you all would like to know

Yeah, and they improved the shift+ping for the GM, too. =)

Brian said: Yeah, and they improved the shift+ping for the GM, too. =) How is shift-ping for the GM changing? That ability has been useful for my groups already before the improvements that are coming.

To quote Riley: In addition, shift+ping'ing will now work better at all zoom levels, before you could end up sending your players to a slightly different location than the one you pinged. Now they will end up at exactly the right spot.