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chrisd Posted - Feb 13 2006 : 12:53:48 PM
Microsoft has a added a new zoom key to there keyboards, which sends a Mousewheel Message with the control key down. Which in programs like word cause the magnification level to change. In the ide this does nthing. IS it possible for you to map this to be the same as the scroll wheel message? This was the document scrolls when using this key.


Thanks,
Chris
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Pomidor Posted - Mar 03 2006 : 2:36:59 PM
IntelliType Pro, software for Microsoft keyboards, is customizable via a secret undocumented file called commands.xml. This file is located in a subdirectory where IntelliType is installed, typically c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft IntelliType Pro. Apparently, Microsoft assigned the zoom keys the to zoom commands. You can edit the XML file and replace the lines
<C319 Type="6" Activator="ZoomOut" />
<C320 Type="6" Activator="ZoomIn" />
with
<C319 Type="6" Activator="ScrollUp" />
<C320 Type="6" Activator="ScrollDown" />
which give you scroll actions instead.
It works although I not very happy with the results. Scrolling from a mouse is much better.
gmit Posted - Feb 14 2006 : 03:19:48 AM
I'm not sure whether it is exactly what you want, but, take a look at following two pages:

(zooming with mouse within VS.NET)
http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/coolcommands

(binding mouse buttons to commands)
http://www.visualstudiohacks.com/vsmouse
feline Posted - Feb 13 2006 : 3:37:07 PM
using MS Word 2000 if i hold down the control key and scroll my mouse wheel the document zooms in and out, which i did not know happened. the key point here is that this is a built in feature of MS Word.

i do not know of any such feature in the IDE, so VA cannot simply map a given input to an existing IDE feature.

if you are using VS2005 have a look in the macro explorer window. under accessibility there are the two macros "DecreaseTextEditorFontSize" and "IncreaseTextEditorFontSize". the IDE will allow you to map a keyboard shortcut to a given macro, so you may be able to find a tool to allow you to map this keyboard signal to these macro's. if the keyboard comes with control software can you map it to an application specific keyboard shortcut, which is then mapped to these macro's?

all of this is well outside of VA's scope though.

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