Undocumented QEditor Feature

[zooba]

Well, I've never heard it mentioned before and I only discovered it by accident...

Similar to IE and other web browsers, hold down Control and use the mouse-wheel to zoom in and out. The zoom level doesn't persist and it's much easier than going via the settings menu. :bg

Hutch--, if it was deliberate, well done  :clap: . Though my guess is that it's a default behaviour of modern rich-edit boxes in Windows. :green

Cheers,

Zooba :U

[Vortex]

Nice feature :8)

[hutch--]

zooba,

I know it has the autoscroll in 4 directions which are just default characteristics in the edit control but I am not sure what you mean by "zoom". I run this on win2000.

[Ossa]

on Win XP it works:



Ossa

[MichaelW]

Under Windows 2000 SP4, at least with the IntelliPoint drivers installed, it seems to work with any rich edit control. It also works with SciTE, so apparently it works with Scintilla, which is not built on a rich edit control.

[hutch--]

I think I have been robbed, I just downloaded the Intellipoint driver, installed it and with the Microsoft optical wheel mouse I have it does nothing more than the standard Win2000 driver.

[evlncrn8]

last time i checked there were 2 versions of the intellipoint drivers, surprisingly enough the lower version was better.....

[Ghirai]

It works with any richtext control, and as far as i can see, you need no special drivers for it.

[raymond]

It doesn't seem to work for me on Win98SE, neither with QEditor nor with IE. It may be related to new features in WinXP. I'll try it later with WinXP.

Raymond

[raymond]

My apology. It seems to work today with IE under Win98SE but definitely not with QEditor. However, it does work under WinXP Home Edition on my box also with QEditor.

Raymond.

[Roger]

Hi All,

It is obviously a very choosy function - the only place I can make it work on XP is in the MASM Forum and then only to make your words shrink. Is this telling us something?

Regards Roger

[zooba]

A lot of (poorly developed) web pages don't allow it. They specify an exact font size and ignore the settings - in IE they're under View | Text Size.

Cheers,

Zooba :U

[MichaelW]

It's not the web page ignoring the settings in IE, its IE using the web page settings instead of the user preferences. You can change this behavior in Internet Options, Accessibility. This is the way I run IE, so using my 17-inch display I can conveniently see the fonts on web pages designed by a young person with a 26-inch display. The down side is that with the larger fonts some web pages, even Microsoft pages, will not display correctly.

[zooba]

The MASM Forum doesn't display very well with page font sizes off, but I've never seen anything PHP based that has.

Possibly IE could adjust it's internal tables for "small", "large", "xlarge" etc. to be relative to the text-size setting, or IIRC (long time since I've done real HTML) font sizes can be set using "+n" or "-n".

Cheers,

Zooba :U