Option to disable panning/zooming

[wdporter]

I was using this perfectly well with the browser zoom mode, and now with your browse/zoom update, that doesn't work very well. Can we please have an option to disable pan/zoom ?

[gereleth]

Could you elaborate and tell me what you find more comfortable about browser zoom?

Personally I found it frustrating to drag scrollbars around to see another part of a big puzzle on desktop. And on mobile showing big puzzles in full leads to lagging and performance problems.

[neonz80]

The problem is that the panning is not implemented like the regular page panning/scrolling. I'm using Chrome on MacOS and I'm panning using two fingers on the trackpad and these are some of the problems I've found:

• The pan direction set in the OS is not checked, so for me the panning is the opposite way than the rest of the system
• The panning seems to be much faster than regular panning/scrolling and is much harder to control
• The panning only works if the cursor is over a tile.
• If you pan until a tile is no longer under the mouse cursor, the panning stops and the browser takes over the panning, scrolling the page down or even goes back to the previous page.

[gereleth]

I see, thanks for expaining. That doesn't sound fun).

Regarding the panning speed/direction issues: I'm relying on normalize-wheel package to translate trackpad gestures into pan amount in pixels. This seems to work ok on a few different device/browser configurations I have around but none of them are Macs so I can't really test what happens there. So other than researching alternative event normalization libraries I don't have ideas for how to fix this for you.

Panning only happens when the cursor is over a tile because I didn't want to completely hijack scrolling of the page. I've started thinking of redesigning layout over in #44 to let puzzle take most of the page area so that other scrolling is unnecessary. But I can't say that's going to be done any time soon)).

I could add keyboard controls - something like WASD for panning, some other pair of keys to zoom in/out. As an alternative to trackpad gestures =).

Or maybe I will create this setting option after all. Not thrilled about doing this, lol, because I much prefer new way over old one. But I understand things may be different for others.

[gereleth]

Hi @neonz80 @wdporter

I added a setting to disable zoom/pan functions. If you use this setting then things should be more or less back to where they were before. Could you try it at the preview link and verify that it works for you?

[neonz80]

@gereleth
This works fine! Thanks!

[wdporter]

@gereleth yes that works as I expect, thank you very much.