Text zooming in Blitz IDE

Some people may not be aware of this - I wasn't, and I've been using Blitz3D since 2001.

I used my mouse wheel to scroll through a program and (too my amazement) the text expanded (zoomed) in the IDE. I was immediatley baffled by this as I have never witnessed it before.

Anyway, after a few minutes, I noticed a book was resting on my CTRL key.

So, there you have it - if you didn't know about text zooming in the IDE - you do now. Just hold down the CTRL button and zoom the source code to the desired size with the mouse wheel.

Interesting. On my machine it mainly just resizes the tabs, before suddenly jumping to a HUGE font size, though. And, the size isn't maintained between invocations.

Mine does the tabs first, then zooms in stages - repeating the tabs, but zooming the text.

Are you using the standard IDE font?

Yeh. I have no IDE enhancements.

It's the default rich text field behaviour -- this zooming effect happens in any program that uses those, unless you specifically intercept the combination and ignore it.

Thankfully it does this too, as I have all of my text set to 200% of it's normal size to help offset a high resolution on a small monitor - but having my programming font doubled in size was unbearable.

Hey - it happens on this web page too.

IE uses that shortcut to zoom text on any website that doesn't lock it into place with CSS.

You'll find that it's just another shortcut to View -> Textsize in Internet Explorer.