Why ignoring Mac OS navigation rules?

Help for Audacity on macOS.
Forum rules
ImageThis forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.
Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".


Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Post Reply
Lebostein
Posts: 4
Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2015 1:18 pm
Operating System: Please select

Why ignoring Mac OS navigation rules?

Post by Lebostein » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:42 pm

Hi,

I wonder why I can not zoom and pan with the normal Mac OS shortcuts?

cmd + [+] = Zoom in
cmd + [-] = Zoom out
cmd + [0] = Reset zoom

and I wonder why the Mac OS Trackpad (2 finger pan and 2 finger zoom) don't work.

Are there special Mac OS shortcut preference files for download? And is it planed to add simple trackpad features?

Gale Andrews
Quality Assurance
Posts: 41761
Joined: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:02 am
Operating System: Windows 10

Re: Why ignoring Mac OS navigation rules?

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Oct 25, 2015 6:26 pm

Please see the pink panel at the top of the page and give us that information.

If you prefer to use browser-like keyboard shortcuts for zooming, you can set these in Keyboard Preferences.

Audacity is a cross-platform app, not specifically a Mac app. We are limited by the features of the wxMac interface toolkit that we use.

You can use modifiers instead of two fingers on the Track pad. Please see the text at the bottom of Mouse Preferences.

It is possible Audacity 2.1.2-alpha (which is close to release as Audacity 2.1.2) may support horizontal scrolling without SHIFT. If you would like to, please try it and let us know. Grab the latest build at the top of http://www.audacity.homerow.net/index.p ... order=desc.


Gale
________________________________________FOR INSTANT HELP: (Click on Link below)
* * * * * Tips * * * * * Tutorials * * * * * Quick Start Guide * * * * * Audacity Manual

Post Reply