Hi There, this is an experimental zoom affect in combination with mouse scroll : [Screen Recording 2026-02-23 at 17.36.49] This utilities the Opt/Alt-Scroll feature to zoom in/out out and what is happening is that when I zoom out far enough, the workspace tab is changed automatically. Or when I z…

A bit like the Prezi presentation tool used to do !

[image] dceejay: A bit like the Prezi presentation It would be if the zoom in would be centred on the mouse cursor :wink: Noticed that zooming in does not use the mouse cursor as point to zoom in to, I think that was one of the features of the presentation tool (having used it briefly and the…

This is interesting. In my opinion, the Node-RED editor could do with the following two upgrades: Opt/Alt-Scroll feature currently zooms in using the centre of the canvas as the zoom point. This is incredibly annoying. When you zoom out very far, then zoom back in, it always takes you to the centr…

[image] hazymat: If anyone has ever used CAD software (for example Sketchup / PCB design programs like Eagle / Fusion etc.) then this will be familiar. Exactly that. Zooming to points in and out, can be so much more helpful than a general zoom. But to be fair, it's only something that works u…

on my Mac I can use Zoom with the Cmd key held down to zoom at the mouse pointer. I guess it may be Ctrl on other platforms.... Of course it zooms the whole page not just the edit workspace.

That's a Mac thing that I've (for example) had turned off .. [Screenshot 2026-02-26 at 05.23.15] But that smoothness and centredness should be exactly what NR does :wink:

ctrl+zoom is not usable... the closer you zoom, the tinier the editor frame gets. alt+zoom also not usable for the aforementioned reasons. The only option is to engage squint mode. (¬_¬ )

[image] gregorius: I suspect though it's a non-trivial change to use the mouse point as focus of the zoom but I'm no expert. It might turn out to be a simple fix - which would be great :slight_smile: Just to note, it's only by chance I've just read through this thread to find complaints/ideas…

[image] knolleary: Just saying @knolleary all good, this is a share your project not a feature request, so no, I didn't intend for you to get involved. It's more of an idea to have a continuous scroll but it's not something that I seriously think could be useful. [image] knolleary: pleas…

dev branch. The changes were substantial as they modified lots of micro-behaviours around zoom and navigation. Check the closed PR list for one from @dimitrieh

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Best place for feedback on the beta right now would be the thread about the beta here

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