Reversing Mouse wheel direction when zooming

Software
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I was wondering why I can’t reverse the direction of Mouse wheel when zooming

  • there is an existing topic about it with lengthily explanations of why people think the current direction is all we need - kind of pointless in my opinion as this is clearly nothing for a software engineer to decide - it’s a user preference -period - sorry for being so plain about this …

Also somebody already did write the code for allowing switching the direction - but somehow this was never adapted ?? seems super strange to me

Anyway - Is it indeed true in that we can not revers the direction of the mouse wheel or am I missing something ?

Best regards

Georg

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If you go to the help menu and about, I think, there is an option that lets you copy stuff to the clip board the developers will need to even start to help with this. Best to edit your original post with it so people see it up front.

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My Operating System allows for mouse scroll reversal, amongst other mouse controls. I didn’t think that function was anything to do with Kicad.

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You’re on mac - unfortunately I’m mostly working on Windows these days- that’s not an option for windows & switching the direction on the operating system doesn’t really fix the issue & it would switch it for other programs as well …

Don’t get me wrong - I think Kicad is great !- but I think some of the developers are very much stuck in there own way … you can see that on every corner
I gave up on it - they will never get these little things - sorry

Georg

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No, Linux Mint.

Maybe, but:

I think most of us have certain, sometimes intractable, opinions on various subjects. :slightly_smiling_face:

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They say it’s often harder to unlearn than to learn. But it’s happening to me as time goes by anyway.

Sorry, where was I? :rofl:

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I’d also love (need?) to have a “reverse scroll direction” toggle in the Mouse and Touchpad Preferences section. Various other CAD and CAD-adjacent programs have a simple toggle for this. Indeed, there isn’t “one correct way” for the scroll wheel to zoom. It’s user preference, and implementing it as a toggle solves the issue entirely.

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I just tried something…
It turns out the functionality to reverse the scroll direction is already present. The Preferences GUI doesn’t allow it.

Inside of kicad_common.json, located in %appdata%\kicad{latest_version}\ on Windows machines, there’s a line:
“zoom_speed”: X,
X is normally set by the slider in the Preferences section.

Close KiCad.
Open that file in a text editor, and change the zoom_speed to a negative number.
Open KiCad and go into PCB editor.
The mouse scroll wheel zoom direction is now reversed.

The problem though is that if you open up the Preferences and click OK, even if you don’t change anything, the zoom_speed setting will get changed back to 1.

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