UI - Mouse wheel middle click zooms and pans

On 6/28/2012 10:49 AM, Andrew Ho wrote:

I'm having some trouble with panning the UI. The issue is that whenever I click the middle button to pan, it also zooms in. If I hold the middle button down steady, it will continue to zoom in. This makes navigating through a schematic a huge pain. The only way I found to get around this is to change the mouse wheel zoom to 1 or 0, however both of these options eliminate zooming by scrolling the mouse wheel. I have the default 6.2.0 install for Windows.

 

Is there a way I can fix this so that I can pan with the middle button without the annoying zoom in and still be able to zoom by scrolling the mouse wheel?

 

Hi Andrew,

I've run into this before. You have to look at the mouse settings on

your Windows machine. In some new mouse models the scroll wheel can

actually tilt a little left or right and Windows interprets that as a

different command.

Look into your mouse settings and play with them a little.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

I have the same problem. But I also checked this with eagle5.

eagle5 ignores if I tilt the wheel itself, so I can pan by pressing the

wheel, and zoom by turning the wheel. the tilt is just ignored.

Is there a setting where we can make eagle ignore this tilit?

BR

Marc

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On 8/1/2012 10:22 AM, Marc Wetzel wrote:

I have the same problem. But I also checked this with eagle5.

eagle5 ignores if I tilt the wheel itself, so I can pan by pressing the

wheel, and zoom by turning the wheel. the tilt is just ignored.

 

Is there a setting where we can make eagle ignore this tilit?

 

BR

Marc

 

Hi Marc,

I hope you are doing well. You have to disable it in your OS's mouse

properties. EAGLE uses whatever the OS will give it.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Jorge

I think you are misssing that this behavior is new in V6.  No mouse settings were changed during the upgrade.

There are no settings, at least in the control panel of Windows 7, that will affect this.

In Eagle, setting the mouse wheel zoom to 0 allows the mouse to work normally - that is, spinning the wheel scrolls vertically, while pressing the wheel side to side does horizontal scrolling, but there is no zooming capability with this setting.  However, holding the wheel button down now causes the display to scroll from side to side while simultaneously panning.

Setting the mouse wheel zoom to 1 eliminates all scrolling with the wheel, but panning works correctly.

Setting the mouse wheel to the default 1.2 brings back the behavior of zooming when the wheel is held down (or pushed side to side).

A lot of folks seem to be reporting the same problem.  It is Eagle V6 related, NOT an OS issue. 

Thanks

Bruce Herrick

On 5/25/2013 4:39 PM, Bruce Herrick wrote:

Jorge

 

I think you are misssing that this behavior is new in V6.  No mouse

settings were changed during the upgrade.

 

There are no settings, at least in the control panel of Windows 7, that

will affect this.

 

In Eagle, setting the mouse wheel zoom to 0 allows the mouse to work

normally - that is, spinning the wheel scrolls vertically, while

pressing the wheel side to side does horizontal scrolling, but there is

no zooming capability with this setting.  However, holding the wheel

button down now causes the display to scroll from side to side while

simultaneously panning.

 

Setting the mouse wheel zoom to 1 eliminates all scrolling with the

wheel, but panning works correctly.

 

Setting the mouse wheel to the default 1.2 brings back the behavior of

zooming when the wheel is held down (or pushed side to side).

 

A lot of folks seem to be reporting the same problem.  It is Eagle V6

related, NOT an OS issue.

 

Thanks

Bruce Herrick

 

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Hi Bruce,

This is not entirely correct Bruce. V5 did not have any provisions to

accept side to side input on a scroll wheel. The updated libraries that

were used to compile V6 can accept this input and do something with it,

but again it just taking what the OS will give it. Had V5 had support

for the side-side tilt we would've started running into this in V5.

The Mouse wheel zoom is simply a factor that control how much a turn of

the scroll wheel zooms into the design. A value of zero disables the

zooming functionality by turning the scroll wheel, so I don't see how it

would still zoom after setting it to zero.

To those experiencing this issue, do you have any other mice you can

try? Preferrably scroll-wheel mice that don't support side-side tilt on

the scroll wheel.

Let me know what you guys can find out. If problems continue I'm going

to need some way of reproducing the issue. Please specify the OS and

whether it's 32-bit or 64-bit.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Hi Jorge

I am currently using an old mouse that does not have side-to-side capability, and it seems to work correctly.  I would prefer my cordless but this old one at least lets me get my work done.

The other mouse does not zoom with a setting of 0.  Instead, when you press the button down it scrolls from side to side.  Rotating the wheel scrolls vertically as it should. 

My OS is Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

Thanks for looking into this.

Bruce Herrick

10 year Eagle user

I realize this is an old thread but I just updated from version 5 to version 7 and now I have this problem too, very frustrating.  Windows (7) will not allow me to turn the side-to-side control off; '1' is the lowest sensitivity setting instead of '0'.  This reduces the error but still makes the mouse frustrating to use for panning.

My Logitech M505 wireless mouse works exactly perfect with respect to scroll up=Zoom in, scroll down=Zoom out, right tilt=pan right, left tilt=pan left. That is except for Eagle 6.6. Works with all my browsers, every microsoft product, everything I have ever tried. Except Eagle. I doubt it is an OS issue. Just my 2 cents.

Hi,

I was having the same issue here, but I use OpenSuSE linux, 12.3. Maybe this can be usefull for windows users too, although I have no experience with windows settings.

After some research I found out what the problem was. My X11 mouse configuration was incorrect. There is an "Emulate3Buttons" setting that was "on". This is certainly wrong in my case, since my mouse has the middle button on the wheel. This means that to produce the middle button I had to press simultaneously the left and the right mouse buttons. And indded, when I did that, I was able to pan.

At the same time, there was another wrong setting, which was "EmulateWheel" "on" together with "EmulateWheelButton" "2". That is what was causing the middle mouse button to zoom instead of panning.

In my case, these settings could be found in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-mouse.conf. To find out the exact entry that is beeing used, you must search for the mouse driver recognized by X11 in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log. These were the changes I did on 11-mouse.conf:

Section "InputClass"

        # Novell Bug #671776

        Identifier      "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"

        MatchProduct    "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"

        MatchIsPointer  "on"

        Driver  "evdev"

#        Option  "EmulateWheel"  "on"

#        Option  "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"

        Option  "EmulateWheel"  "off"

        Option  "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"

        Option  "YAxisMapping"    "4 5"

        Option  "XAxisMapping"    "6 7"

#        Option  "Emulate3Buttons"    "on"

        Option  "Emulate3Buttons"    "off"

        Option  "EmulateWheelTimeout"    "200"

EndSection

This is what I get on the log (now fixed):

[   545.112] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse (/dev/input/event1)

[   545.112] (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"

[   545.112] (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"

[   545.112] (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"

[   545.112] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse'

[   545.112] (**) ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: always reports core events

[   545.112] (**) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event1"

[   545.112] (--) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x5

[   545.112] (--) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons

[   545.112] (--) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)

[   545.112] (--) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found relative axes

[   545.112] (--) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Found x and y relative axes

[   545.112] (II) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Configuring as mouse

[   545.112] (II) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: Adding scrollwheel support

[   545.112] (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"

[   545.112] (**) Option "EmulateWheel" "off"

[   545.112] (**) Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"

[   545.112] (**) Option "EmulateWheelTimeout" "200"

[   545.112] (**) Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"

[   545.112] (**) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5

[   545.112] (**) Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"

[   545.112] (**) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: XAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7

[   545.112] (**) evdev: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 2, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200

Best regards,

Marcelo.