Zooming in/out without scroll wheel on mouse

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Hello,

Using my Laptop/tablet & team viewer I tried to continue a game I had started on my other computer at home.   My tablet has that square surface on the keyboard and two buttons to emulate a mouse it does not have a scroll wheel.

I was unable to find an option to zoom in / out on the map without the scroll wheel.   I suggest you add such as feature as not every computer user will have a mouse with scroll wheel.  

Some possibilities:   + (plus): To zoom in,   - (minus) to zoom out.     Also:   Ctrl + Left mouse button to zoom in,  Ctrl + right mouse button to zoom out.

I did see a +/- on the upper/rightmost corner of the map (which shows the reduced map) which I think were intended for this but it did not function.  Having a +/- key or ctrl + mouse key is faster than having to move the pointer on that area to click anyways.

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Have you tried using keyboard number keys? Most or all of the numbers 1-9 are mapped to zoom presets.  In the game setup screen, you can change the presets. In my experience, the behavior can be faster using number keys than it is using the scroll wheel.  My guess is scrolling is faster within a given zoom quantum, and number keys are faster jumping between or across those major zoom boundaries. That's just speculation.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I did not try those; It wasn't something intuitive to try.   ( In browsers for example people use the + / - keys) to make the fonts bigger.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thank you for the feedback. :)