Touchpad to zoom missing from 5.99?

[joost]

Using Big Sur 11.1 the touchpad just copies mouse movements, pinch to zoom and three finger swipe to pan do not seem to work using 5.99 as of 1/28/2021. With 5.18 there was a preference “Use touchpad to pan” which I don’t see in 5.99. Checking the gitlab repo I do not see this as an outstanding issue - is this not planned?

Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.99.0-8687-g7f6e07488f), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.64.1 SecureTransport (LibreSSL/2.8.3) zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.41.0
Platform: macOS Version 10.16 (Build 20B50), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
Date: Jan 28 2021 06:34:25
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.75.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.54.0
ngspice: 31
Compiler: Clang 10.0.1 with C++ ABI 1002

[JeffYoung]

Look in Preferences > Mouse and Touchpad. It’s much more configurable than it was in 5.1.

[joost]

Yep, seen that - no touchpad options or any options that allow me to use the touchpad for pan & zoom though. I see “vertical touchpad” (huh?) and selected the Zoom + – option but the touchpad just moves the cursor. No zoom no pad.

[JeffYoung]

This setting makes two-finger touchpad movement zoom for me:

[joost]

Yes that is my setting also but no dice. And besides zoom, drag/pan with touchpad how is that supported supossedly?

[JeffYoung]

With the above settings it would pan with the Alt or Shift keys down. (I can’t confirm that because I normally have it set to pan with no modifiers.)

I have my trackpad set up for three-finger drag. But that’s done on the OSX side, not in Kicad. Kicad just receives drag events.

[craftyjon]

To clarify terms: 2-finger scrolling means sliding 2 fingers across the trackpad while not pressing down. 2-finger drag means the same but pressing down to “click”. Scrolling is also sometimes called “mouse wheel movement” because the same events are generated when you scroll on a trackpad and when you roll the wheel on a mouse that has one.

By default on MacOS, middle button drag is inaccessible with just the trackpad, and clicking while dragging with 2 fingers performs a right button drag. What happens when you do that is configured in the “right button drag” section, by default this is panning. This is a new feature in 5.99; 5.1 didn’t have the ability to pan or zoom with dragging.

The behavior of sliding 2 fingers around on the touchpad without clicking is controlled in the bottom section.

You need to set it more like below if you want 2-finger scroll to pan up and down rather than zooming:

(I normally set it up like Jeff though, and use right-drag, i.e. 2-finger drag, to pan around instead of just 2-finger scroll)