Initial zoom

Module Design
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Sorry if this has been answered before, but I searched and searched and couldn’t find it.

That being said, I hear there’s a way to set the initial zoom level for a module in 3.1 beta5, but for the life of me I can’t find where to set it in the module editor. Can someone please help me out?

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Thus spake “Molokai”:

There should be a Zoomer in the tree under your Map. You can set the initial
zoom level there.

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Oh, so does that mean that the module has to be made new under 3.1?

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Thus spake “Molokai”:

No, you shouldn’t need to create a new module just for 3.1.

If you open the module in the Editor, do you see a Zoomer in the tree
under your map?

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If you’re meaning under, say, Main Map[Map Window] → Game Board[Board] → [Rectangular Grid], then no, but I can’t see a “Zoomer” anywhere in any branch of the module tree.

Edit: As a matter of fact, any existing module I open for editing doesn’t have the zoomer option, nor do any new modules I make in 3.1 beta5.

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Under Main Map - look for the trait [Zoom Capability]

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Aha, I see it now. It’s not in there, but I can add it in the right-click context menu.

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Thus spake “Molokai”:

If it’s there, what you’ll see it as is “[Zoom capability]”, as a child
of “Main Map [Map Window]”. (Zoomer is the name of the Java class which
provides the zoom components.)

If you don’t see this as a child of the map, then you can add one by
selecting it from the context menu which you can get by right-clicking
on the map item.

J.

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