Compositing Zoom Commodity

Now that we have compositing, it should be possible to make a commodity that zooms the screen when a key is pressed and the scrollwheel is used.

OSX has this and it's really nice to be able to zoom in on pixels sometimes.

Any taker?

This one does something similiar but it would be better to have a commodity running in the background all the time and try to make it a bit more elegant like in osx.

http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fun ... c/compositing_goodies.lha

There is also CloneWindow ( on aminet with sources) that may be modified to make a zoom commodity

Alain

Switcher3D has it.

Switcher3D doesn't seem to work here.. it just removes all active windows and shows an empty workbench...?
I think it used to work..

... and i can't find the zoom function?
edit: oh, just found it.

@spotUP

Have a chat with Ami603, he's got a very nice zooming routine in SSDR, just run it them middle click on a screen thumb to zoom to full screen.

Time permitting, i may have a look at this issue soon enough.

This SSDR-Tool is awesome! I just upload a screenshot to os4depot.

fingus:

Thank you very much.in the meantime i've done this (remember:WORK-IN-PROGRESS)

http://ami603.amiga-projects.net/ZDR

it's just the main executable.assign it to a FKEy combination of your choice and use the mouse wheel to zoom around.

Ami603, NICE!!! I haven't tested it yet, will do tomorrow.
It would be nice if the speed of the scrollwheel could be adjusted.

Does it blur the pixels when zooming or is it pixelperfect?

Also in the examples i looked at earlier the zoom got dogslow when i zoomed in a lot, i guess they didn't do any clipping, and rendered a very big image even outside the visible area.

Is your zoomer fast even when zoomed in a lot?

EDIT; this feature should be part of os4, make that happend! ;)

@spotUP

It blurs the pixels at the moment but Broadblues has already asked for a pixel perfect option.

The zoom in/out is the same speed between zoom factors, it's jumps rather than a smooth zoom like OSX, moving around is very fast even at full zoom but that probably depends on your hardware, an R9250 isn't going to compare to an Rxxxx-HD.

I've used allkeys to assign it to the 5th mouse button.

usage:

Launch it from cli, amidock, or assign to a FKEY combination of your choice.

once launched, you'll see a magnifying lens to let you know its working.

mousewheel makes it zoom in and out, middlemouse button enables/disables hardware filtering, and the left button makes it end the program.

It would rock if it could be turned into a commodity that triggered on ctrl+mousewheel.

+1 for smooth zooming and a pixel perfect mode.

Unfortunately, it's CPU hungry (otherwise it would have been excellent to use it for switching DvPlayer to FullScreen without having Overlay).

Just tried too with DVPlayer.

Very useful (nevertheless, as K-L said, cpu hungry on x1000 too).
Thank you.

First Public version of ZDR to be uploaded to OS4Depot As we speak.

Faster,smoother rendering.

Donations wellcome :)

What about a peep-through window, looking at an other hidden public screeen?
Would certainly use that one a lot fro copying & pasting , grabbing a well defined part of that screen etc

What was wrong with : http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?fun ... =graphics/misc/zoomit.lha

@Ami603

It doesn't waste CPU when running, nice !

Just a little thing, it makes DSI (skipables) when a key is pressed when the zoom is active.
No problem to exit zoom with mouse button

@zzd10h

Thank you for the report, already fixed this and other issues.gotta reupload as soon as i find a problem with lesser radeons (7xxx-9xxx).