How to pinch zoom on keyboard / mouse setup?

[fred]

Does anyone know a solution?

This needs to be actual pinch zooming. Tricks like double clicking and holding your mouse button does not work in games that rely on zooming in and out via pinch zooming.

Assistive Zoom (root) [com.kiumiu.ca.assistivezoom] does not work any more.

[crw]

Tincore keymapper works well. You can also modify idc files in /system/usr/idc and make your touchpad behave as touchscreen.

[fred]

I just tried the app and it has been my most frustrating Android experience to date.

It also started popping up ads on my home screen. Never again.

I am also not a big fan of granting proprietary applications which do not have source code available root access.

I spent an hour trying to set it up as well. The only thing I managed to do was mess it up so badly that whenever I clicked on anything with my mouse, that the Tincore Keymapper app would pop up.

All I want to do is just be able to pinch zoom, nothing else. I do not want to go through wiki's to learn an app, or have to deal with on-screen ads.

[crw]

To do pinch to zoom with touchpad, Paste below shell script into a text file called t.txt in /sdcard/

Then press alt+f1 to open to terminal and type sh /sdcard/t.txt and enter. Then type rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse and see if pinch to zoom works on your touchpad. If it doesn't work then restart the zygote with "stop; start" command. If  it still doesn't work, you'll need to create an idc file.

#!/system/bin/sh

cd /system/usr/idc

echo "# touch.deviceType = touchScreen | touchPad | pointer | default

touch.deviceType = touchScreen 

# orientationAware

# touch.orientationAware = 0 or 1

touch.orientationAware = 0

# gestureMode

# Definition: touch.gestureMode = pointer | spots | default

touch.gestureMode = pointer

# Definition: device.internal = 0 | 1

device.internal = 1" | tee SynPS_2_Synaptics_TouchPad.idc ETPS_2_Elantech_Touchpad.idc AlpsPS_2_ALPS_GlidePoint.idc AlpsPS_2_ALPS_DualPoint_TouchPad.idc

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 01 April 2021 at 16:26:07, crw wrote:

> To do pinch to zoom with touchpad, Paste below shell script into a text
> file called t.txt in /sdcard/

I think if Fred had a touchpad, he wouldn't have asked about doing this with
keyboard / mouse?


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[Daniel Cheung]

Is there an actual touch pad that works in Android like fred wanted? I'm also looking for one because I'm running Bliss in my living room. The Logitech keyboard + touchpad combo works like a mouse and not absolute position touch pad like you find in some cars.

[Huy Minh Bui]

Hey can you tell me which app you want to try with pinch zoom ? Like browser or something ?

Vào lúc 16:24:42 UTC+7 ngày Thứ Năm, 25 tháng 3, 2021, fred đã viết:

[fred]

Clash of Clans.

[Huy Minh Bui]

Try to hold Ctrl and then use scroll wheel to zoom yet ?

I usually do that in when I'm on web browser

Vào lúc 00:20:21 UTC+7 ngày Thứ Sáu, 2 tháng 4, 2021, fred đã viết:

[fred]

Not possible. I have tried just about every possible combination and others have confirmed the issue of it not being possible without pinch zoom.