Pixinsight on a MacBook

[martin farmer]

Hello All,

One thing I am getting frustrated with is when I open an image and move the mouse on the mac the image zooms in to a very high magnification.
It does this on its own - are there any one else having the same problem or is there a fix for this.

Thanks for reading this

Regards

Martin

[Jules]

Hi Martin

I think most people who have used PI on a macbook have had this problem, I am afraid all the tweaking with the system preferences did not do anything for me.

As much as I like my Mac, I do not like supplied mouse. I quite like the Microsoft mouse, for me it is tactile and ergonomic and I like the physical feeling of a wheel to do my zooming.

Regards

Julian

[marekc]

Hi Martin,

I use Macs for my Pixinsight processing, and I've had good luck with a Logitech M555b bluetooth mouse. This has been a really useful mouse for me.

The zoom wheel can be `click-depressed' in order to toggle between a free-spinning, flywheel-like scroll mode (very handy for quickly scrolling through big webpages or PDFs), and a detent-by-detent scroll mode. This latter scroll mode allows me to go from one PI zoom level to another very precisely. I tend to use the free-spinning mode when I'm in programs other than PI, and the detent-by-detent mode in PI. I'm glad it's easy to switch between modes, too.

I use Expose and Spaces a lot (on my home machine, running Snow Leopard), and a simulation thereof called TotalSpaces (on my work machine, running Lion). The tilt-left and tilt-right functions on the scroll wheel are very useful to me when using Expose and Spaces.

The fact that it's bluetooth means I don't have to tie up a USB port with a mouse-signal receiver.

- Marek