With UPDD Commander 1.14.0 we have tried to make a makes a clear distinction between whether you're zooming something in a window, such as in Safari or Maps, vs. zooming the entire screen in and out using our own screen zooming feature.
To this end this version the name of some of the gesture actions to hopefully make them more clear, rather than relying on the official names of the actions that Apple uses in their settings and documentation.
"Zoom" is now "Zoom window contents".
This is the action that's equivalent to doing a pinch / expand gesture on an Apple trackpad.
"Rotate" is now "Rotate window contents" to be consistent with "Zoom window contents".
This action is equivalent of rotating with two fingers on an Apple trackpad.
"Smart Zoom" is now "Auto-zoom window contents"
This is the action that's equivalent to tapping with two fingers on an Apple trackpad.
"Zoom window" is now "Enlarge window".
This is equivalent to double clicking a window's title bar, or option clicking the green + button in the upper left corner of all windows.
"Zoom screen" is now "Adjust screen zoom".
This action is for our own screen zooming feature, and allows zooming in and out with a pinch gesture.
It also has a new action, named "Zoom whole screen"
This toggles screen zooming on and off, and can be assigned to any gesture such as a tap. It's similar to "Show / hide Smart Magnifier" in that you can pick whether it always zooms in, always zooms out, or toggles between the two, and you can pick the level of zoom
Desktop Zooming
Desktop zooming can be used to magnify the desktop to aid view-ability of the desktop display. Use and configuration of this function is part of the system's accessibility features.
Zooming a desktop whilst using a touchscreen interface brings certain challenges but Commander does support this feature.
In order for screen zooming to work with touch the desktop zooming feature must be configured in a specific manner.
To set it up, open the Accessibility system preferences, click "Zoom", and make sure "zoom style" is set to "full screen":
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In order to pan the screen via touch control, you need to set it that panning is invoked when the pointer reaches the edge of the screen, via the Options/Advanced buttons:
Controlling zoom and pan via gestures
Any gesture can be set to invoke desktop zoom or to pan the screen when zoomed in.
The gesture actions Zoom Screen and Move Zoomed screen are defined for this purpose, as per these examples:
