Hi Will, also if you're using a trackpad there are some alternate navigation methods using key combinations which probably will work better for you rather than doing either a right-click or scroll wheel type zoom using the trackpad.

Those are:

Cmd + left drag as an equivalent for right-button drag. This will pan the ortho views or rotate the 3D view.

Cmd + shift + left drag will pan both the 3D view and the ortho view.

Cmd + Ctrl + left drag up or down will do a zoom in/out.


Those may work better for you than trying to do the regular method of right-drag or scroll wheel zoom which are more oriented towards using a mouse with a scroll wheel.

There was a previous reply where those were mentioned, maybe you missed it:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5213.2

- Michael

Hi Michael, indeed I am using a trackpad. Zooming via two-finger scrolling on the trackpad results in large jumps, almost as though MoI is simulating a scroll wheel with notches. I have used the modifier keys you describe, though clicking and dragging is awkward to use constantly. It's unfortunate that multitouch won't happen; it's the difference between delightful interaction and tiresome frustration, and that's really a deal-breaker for me.

William

Hi William, right now I don't really know how I could make multitouch work using the particular porting method that enabled me to make the OSX version in the first place.

Sorry that MoI is not going to be a good fit for you!

Probably your best bet for more comfortable operation with MoI in particular would be to plug in a USB scroll wheel mouse and use that.

- Michael

Hopefully wineskin will support gestures in the future; I believe Win 7 has native support, so I'd assume wine would. I may try running MoI under parallels in the meantime if it's not too slow (gestures work in some programs under parallels). I really don't see myself carrying a mouse around with my laptop just for one program, though.

Edit: After some investigation, it seems Win 7 gestures are on a driver/program basis rather than system-wide, though games somehow deal with this-- perhaps DirectX provides a central API. Anyway, I'm sorry to report that MoI under Parallels doesn't do the trick. The only suggestion I have is to write a native (Cocoa) mouse event handler and hook it into wineskin, which might not be all that difficult.

I just brought a bluetooth windows mouse with wheel just for MOI on OSX, hardly ever use the touch pad now :)