Created Keyboard Shortcuts for Zooming In and Out of Program Monitor Not Working

Still broken in 25.3.0 (Build 84).

You can see below that I have Zoom In/Out set to "- / =" with Ctrl modifier.
Can confirm, all other modifiers work when mapped to Zoom In/Out except Ctrl.

Oh wait, they changed their shortcut key. My bad 🙂 

Fixed the on previous version but now it's not working again on 25.3.0 (Build 84).

@Palash Sanjay Kotgirwar,

Thank you!

I am on Beta 25.1.0 Build 7 and they are indeed fixed. The behavior matches what I described for the magnification level specific shortcuts: zoom monitor in/out zooms on the screen when the shortcut is entered, not the original screen center.

As previously, "Fit" can be assigned at the application level and appears to work correctly. Zoom monitor in/out must be assigned for the Source and Program monitors separately.

Zoom monitor in/out step through the levels of the monitor zoom levels/magnification.

Stan

One of the earliest comments in the Beta discussion on the new zoom behavior was that these shortcuts were broken (3/25/24).

They are a little unusual because I do not see any menu, or other, way to access these commands.

The workaround is to use the zoom function. Note that, by default, the scroll zoom uses the mouse cursor position on screen to zoom in/out. Holding alt/opt and scroll uses the screen center (at that point in time - not the original frame center).

On Windows, if you use the Alt, when you release it, it shifts focus to the menu bar, and you must press alt again to return focus to the Program Monitor.

Holding Shift moves in larger increments so you can scroll faster.

As already noted, there are application-wide, program monitor, and source monitor shortcuts for "fit," that are unassigned by default.

There are unassigned shortcuts for Magnification (all the levels of the drop down in the monitors). These zoom in on the center of the screen when invoked, and not the zoom target point nor the original full-frame center. This is different from the behavior in PR 2023 - there, the magnification is always to the center of the original frame. And in PR 2023, where the zoom in/out shortcuts still work, I see that they also zoom to the center of the original frame. So fixing these may also involve changing this behavior. And I think zooming to the current screen frame, and not the original full frame, is better.

@Palash Sanjay Kotgirwar Can you comment? (Palash is the developer who posted about the zoom feature when introduced in the Beta.)

Stan

@Kevin-Monahan  any updates? this is a real

pain point at our facility right now

@Kevin-Monahan in reply to your 8/22 - 24.6 does not fix the issue - my asst editor also pointed out that the scroll bars in the program monitor also intermittently no longer show up (this bug showed up for her at the same time as the zoom in issue in question)

facility running many mac pro 2019s, latest OS versions

Not fixed in 24.6

@Kevin-Monahan