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Changing bindings

Open mikazz opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Is there any way to change bindings? I really miss those standard ones from photoshop: [ctrl] [+] / [ctrl] [-] (zoom in/zoom out) [ctrl] [mouse scroll down] / ctrl [mouse scroll up] (zoom in/zoom out) [ctrl] [z] (undo) / [Shift] [Control] [Z] (redo)

I understand it's like this due to windows/ os command control?

By the way it's really good editor, keeping it clean is that what other ones are missing. I really craved for this idea of being able to simply pause animation, edit image, and play. And here it is ;)), (and so is there any way to change fps of animation?)

mikazz avatar Jul 08 '20 17:07 mikazz

It's not possible to change key bindings but the existing bindings were chosen carefully. The idea is that for the most part, you can keep your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand on the mouse/trackpad. For zooming you can use W and R. If you can a trackpad, you can also do a pinch gesture.

Holding down ctrl and then scrolling is something I hadn't thought of (even though I use it all the time on macOS for zooming into the screen!) and seems like a great alternative to the pinch gesture for mouse users.

For undo/redo there's G and B. The idea is that your left hand stays where it would be as if you were typing. So your fingers stay on the ASDF keys and move up and down. If you go to Help > Key bindings you'll see the keys that aren't already in the menu bar somewhere.

Despite this, I'll probably make it possible to change key bindings as it's a pretty basic feature that most applications have.

As for changing the FPS, well you can change the inverse of the FPS! See that little 100 in a text box inside the timeline controls? That's the animation delay. It's the number of milliseconds between each frame. So if for example, you wanted 24 fps, you'd set it to 1000/24=42.

I really appreciate the feedback so if you have any other feedback, please let me know! 😉 Also, if I've answered your questions about key bindings and FPS then you can close this issue.

indianakernick avatar Jul 08 '20 22:07 indianakernick

I still haven't added the ability to change key bindings but in v0.2.0 I added the ability to zoom by holding down CTRL and scrolling. This is a low priority as I've been working on groups and the exporter. If you bug me about it, that might increase the priority! 😉

indianakernick avatar Aug 03 '20 06:08 indianakernick