Panning and zooming

Moving around the canvas

• Trackpad scroll over an empty area: pans the camera. Over a panel, the scroll belongs to the panel.
• Right-button drag over an empty area: pans the camera. Over a panel, the right button opens that panel's menu.

The file drawer, the design navigator, the workstreams sidebar and the shelf take the scroll like panels do: over them, the wheel scrolls the list.

The camera belongs to each work area. Every tab keeps the position and the zoom you left it at.

Zooming in and out

• Pinch on the trackpad: zooms in and out, including with the cursor over a panel.
• ⌘ with scroll: the same, including over a panel.
• Mouse wheel over an empty area: zooms with no modifier. Over a panel, the wheel belongs to the panel. An image dropped on the canvas is not a panel, and over it the wheel still drives the camera.
• The − and + buttons, top right: each click changes the zoom by a fixed step, anchored at the center of the view.

In the gestures, the point under the cursor stays put. Zoom ranges from 15% to 300%.

Putting the camera back

• Clicking the percentage, between − and +: sets the zoom to 100% and clears the pan. The grid tightens so it doesn't cover panels detached from it, and the canvas images move out from under whatever was hiding them.
• Middle mouse click: does the same. The mouse side buttons don't.

What stops being drawn at a distance

On the free canvas, below 40% zoom, browsers, modules and designs become a rectangle with an icon and a name. Above that, at most ten of them stay drawn at once, starting with the ones closest to the center of the view. Media and webcam panels never count against that, and neither do agents and terminals: those draw at any zoom. On the automatic grid, all of them stay drawn.

Nothing is shut down at that moment. The agent that was working keeps working, the browser page stays loaded, and the panel draws again as soon as you get closer.

The background grid

The grid is only drawn on the free canvas. Its spacing is 40 points and doubles as you pull back. The two modes of the table are in panels and the table.

Finding a panel that went out of sight

• ⌘⇧E: opens the shelf, with everything open in this project.
• ⌘K: finds a panel by name, in any work area. See search and commands.
• ⌥O: tidies the panels with no overlap. See tidying up on its own.

By voice, "take me to Hermes" moves the camera to him, switching project and area first if he is somewhere else.

The project keys

In Settings → Shortcuts, in the canvas group, the Go to project 1…9 block. The position is the card's position on the home screen, described in several canvases.

The picker offers two modes:

• One modifier for all nine positions: ⌘ out of the box, which gives ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3 and so on. With no modifier selected, the nine positions have no shortcut at all.
• One key per position: each position gets the combination you record, and a position left blank has no shortcut.

The warning at the top of the shortcuts screen lists keys claimed by two actions at once, and it includes these nine.