{"id":1419,"date":"2010-09-14T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2010-09-14T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:07:18","slug":"zoom-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/1419\/zoom-anywhere","title":{"rendered":"Zoom Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in and out of Apple&#8217;s iPhone simulator for the past two years, and for the entire time, I&#8217;ve been frustrated by what I assumed was an inherent limitation: pinching and zooming and only works in the middle of the screen:<\/p>\n<p>Today I was so supremely frustrated by this that I played around with all manner of double-clicking, alternate modifier keys, etc., until I stumbled on the simple solution. Googling for answers after-the-fact revealed that I&#8217;m by no means the first person to discover this, but it&#8217;s quite possible <em>I&#8217;m the first person who has told you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To zoom in on an arbitrary point with the iPhone simulator:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hold down the option key to obtain the familiar &#8220;simulation fingertips&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Move the mouse until the fingertips are the desired &#8220;starting width&#8221; for your gesture.<\/li>\n<li>Keeping the option key pressed, hold down the shift key to enter &#8220;panning&#8221; mode.<\/li>\n<li>Move the mouse until the fingertips are at the desired starting position.<\/li>\n<li>Remove the shift key while continuing to hold the option key.<\/li>\n<li>Click and drag to zoom in or out at the selection location.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ZoomAnywhere-3.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/wp-content\/downloads\/2010\/09\/ZoomAnywhere-3.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ZoomAnywhere-3.png\" width=\"314\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little cumbersome, but it&#8217;s about 1000% more useful than not being able to do it at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been in and out of Apple&#8217;s iPhone simulator for the past two years, and for the entire time, I&#8217;ve been frustrated by what I assumed was an inherent limitation: pinching and zooming and only works in the middle of the screen: Today I was so supremely frustrated by this that I played around with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,52,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocoa","category-iphone","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}