Can't zoom in IVA

[mrmcp1]

A couple of months ago a got a new HP laptop which like my last laptop had a trackpad. On the old laptop I could zoom in using the trackpad (pinch to zoom) but the keys bound to the zoom command would not work in IVA, on the new one the trackpad will not zoom in in IVA or any other in game view and the buttons bound to zoom work in every game mode but IVA. This means that I can't zoom in at all in IVA. I am running a clear 1.05 install but this problem has persisted since around 0.90. The trackpad zoom works fine in other programs which is a bit weird. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[sal_vager]

Hi mrmcp1, have you tried two finger scrolling or edge scrolling with your touchpad? It is likely that your old laptop just sent the "mouse scroll" command to KSP, as KSP doesn't actually have support for pinch-to-zoom, just for mousewheel scrolling.

Your new laptop may have an option to use pinch-to-zoom as a regular scroll in its options.

[mrmcp1]

Thanks for the help, unfortunately activating two finger scrolling had no effect and my touchpad does not appear to support edge scrolling. Weirdly using the pinch to zoom feature seems to decrease the throttle but it is not bound to that control.

[sal_vager]

Decrease throttle is bound to the control key by default so (unless you changed it) the trackpad may be sending the "control" key to KSP, or if you have a stick set up then the trackpad is acting like a sticks 3rd axis, so I'd check for a joystick mode in the trackpads options.

Another thing to try is checking the laptop vendors website for newer drivers, as laptops are usually loaded with old drivers because it's cheaper to have one hard drive image and reuse it for years.

[mrmcp1]

Thanks again, the website says my drivers are up to date and I am not using a stick. My decrease throttle is still bound to control so it seems that my trackpad is sending the ''control'' key to KSP.

[sal_vager]

Sorry I can't actually help, I've never heard of this before and I only have one touchpad to test, a Logitech wireless pad that has two-finger scrolling and it's working fine.

Pinch-zoom is a gesture, maybe you have gestures enabled either via the mouse driver or the operating system, you'd have to google for how to disable this however.

If that doesn't help then all I can think of is using a mouse...

[mrmcp1]

Thanks for the help, I will find my old mouse to see if that works.