Zoom in, Zoom out work space

paulofuertes

After I click on my scene, I would like to "fit" the scene (ipad square) to fix my screen, because it is too big, I need to scroll up/down to see the complete ipad square.. is there any way to zoom out the workspace? (where you drag ur images, etc)

StuartY

You can zoom in with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel on a mac, and turn smoothing (which means it's difficult to position per-pixel stuff) off under system preferences > mouse.

As for zooming out, there's no way to do this that I know of. Hopefully a future gs build will add a native zoom function.

lildragn

There's been a more elegant solution to this implemented recently correct? I remember watching a recent tutorial video where the author was happy to show this functionality but for the life of me I can't remember where I saw it.

Can someone clarify? This would be very handy.

thx

~t

gyroscope

Hi lildragn, a couple of things that can help (iPad portrait especially):

In the Preview Player, if you switch off the scens using the Scenes icon (just underneath the Back/Forward buttons), the scens will hide so you'll see a bit more that way.

Next to the scenes icon is a pulldown menu, the default set to 100%. hold down and select 50%; this is the zoom out you're after, I guess. It's a shame that there's only 50% but that's the way it is. Anyhow, hopefully those two things will help.

Edit: just read you wrote "click on scene"; the only way there to see more is to drag the window as deep as it will go on your particular monitor or zoom with the

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lildragn

Anyone? I'm 90% sure this is possible somehow, unless I'm loopy from watching all these vids

~t

gyroscope

Hi lildragn, as Stuart says, there's no way to Zoom out further than the actual size of the screen for you to adjust the GS window to show more of the iPad size unfortunately.

And the only ways of zooming in are using the mouse scroll wheels, as also mentioned by Stuart, or turning on Universal Access, either by opening it in System Preferences or pressing opt cmd 8. The default key combinations are opt cmd + for zooming in. For zooming out, it's opt cmd – but that doesn't help you as I said because it won't zoom out any more when the actual start size is reached.

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lildragn

Ah that's unfortunate I'm working with iphone landscape (Resolution independence) and as most know, some small actors are tough to manipulate. Hope something more elegant gets implemented soon.

Thx again gyroscope.

~t

gyroscope

Ah, just realised what else you might have meant as well: The grey area outside of the screen area in the Scene Editor?

Sorry, can't change the size of that either. :-(

lildragn

Yeah that's a bit annoying too haha. But I can deal with that... the only problem there is that if you drag an actor outside of the light grey area, how would you get it back? The actor just disappears beneath it.

~t

gyroscope

You'd click the Scene button in the Inspector, then Layers. Open the necessary folder, and through trial and error as to which actor you want (or hopefully you know which actor is hiding) you'd double-click the name of the actor.

That open's it and you can change it's position back onto the screen or grey area. :-)