Vertical Zoom Support in Piano Roll

[ghost]

LMMS can have a "vertical zoom" button in the piano roll window. It seems that the blocks of notes are too small.

[musikBear]

Yes the room for those labels are in-sufficient, but that will be changed. #2285

[Spekular]

@LYF610400210 Can you explain whst this would be used for? Do you want to be able to zoom out, in, or both? @musikBear I'm sure if we really want to implement this we'll be able to make room for it.

[ghost]

@Spekular The labels can be wider, so I will not add a new note by mistake when I want to click on the note to play it.

But I think the labels are too small to zoom out vertically.

[tresf]

The labels can be wider, so I will not add a new note by mistake

Valid reasoning. I'll categorize appropriately and leave this open for feedback.

[musikBear]

able to zoom out, in, or both?

IF something would be useful, i would say IN. That would aid selection of larger segments (but if time-spanned-selections comes, then that wont even be really interesting.)
The thing is, that expanding the notes in height, will first and foremost lead to less of the composition on screen, i really cant see the usecase for that?

@LYF610400210 (or anyone else) -where will that be a benefit?

(More on screen -eg a result of 'thinner' notes could, at rare situations, benefit -like marking a few notes in or out of a existing selection.. )

[tresf]

Probably the most sensible way of implementing this is to make the height of a white key resizable and let the note heights follow suit. After reviewing this enhancement again, I feel a full-fledged vertical zoom feature is overkill for the piano roll. It's only useful up to about 200% and it would take up unnecessary real estate on the toolbar.

In some ways, I feel this qualifies more as an accessibility feature.

[tresf]

As part of a pruning effort, this enhancement request is archived into a dedicated "Better Workflow" checklist here #4877.