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I was wondering if a feature could be added that will allow one to zoom the screen in or out using the Ctrl key and the mousewheel in the script editor....less strain on the eyes

Thanks
Peter G

For the script editor is good (though just changing the font size will work too.

For the canvas area would also be a good thing to be able to zoom in/out.

Cheers,
Dave

I occasionally want to edit code for an iPad on my 11" Macbook Air (just go with me guys). The ability to set a zoom level for a card/stack would be a long welcome change. I know you can mess with the location property but it's a hassle. The ability to see what you're working on, when you don't have your 72" LED screen, would be pretty awesome.

Another option might be scrollbars on the card. But it would still be nice to have a preview of the whole thing.

@allengwinn: I think your use case will be well covered with v6.5. The new resolution independence will offer great rendering on the target device, while allowing you to work at more natural sizes within the IDE.

That said, there are other uses for zooming/scaling of specific groups not yet addressed in v6.5, like being able to deliver custom drawing environments in which the drawing canvas can be zoomed while leaving the rest of the window's UI at its natural scale.

We talked with Kevin about this at our local user group meeting last night, and while it's not currently part of the immediate goals for resolution independence, he seems somewhat optimistic about the potential for extending that to support discrete groups at some point further down the road.

In the meantime, the work going into v6.5 looks very promising for developing for high-res devices on more modest-res dev machines.