Live screen zoom access

gamuso's icon

hello,

I´m totally new with m4l, I would like to know how could I access the "zoom screen" option, which is in -prefs-look & feel, in ableton live.

I work with my laptop on stage, and I could be really great to be able to resize the screen as I go far away from it, using midi or whatever.

any ideas??

thanks a lot!!

Bjorn Vayner's icon

Its not possible. The API features that are currently there are features that were only possible to control with MIDI controllers.

gamuso's icon

wau!!

so I don´t really get the point about m4l. why to work so hard in a patch to make some thing that you can do with much less efforts with the ableton live interface or just mapping anything to a midi controller??

pease, let me know what´s the point with m4l, so I´ll be able to take advantage of it!

thanks a lot.

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strimbob's icon

could you not do it will the aka.shell object and tell live what you need done? not sure what the command would be, but i have accessed other apps like that.

gamuso's icon

what you mean I tell live?
I don´t know about unix commands, but if I knew that way it could be possible I could study some.
could it be done that way?
thanks

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Andrew Pask's icon

Ableton have not made the zoom function of the UI automatable.

Maybe you could make a feature request to them for it.

Also maybe there's some kind of way to automate OS UI zooming, via a some kind of MIDI to keyboard shortcut.

-A

gamuso's icon

hello andrew, yes, in fact I made a patch using the "universal access" zoom options 3 years ago. it works fine, but with less resolution. and I always wonder what is m4l for if it just makes the same things you can do using max and ableton live.

and I always like to try new ways for making the same things!!

here is the patch (for max 4.6!! by the way, I miss it´s old style look):

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

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