This is a small plugin for X-Plane that temporarily inhibits the X-Plane mouse-wheel-to-zoom function.
When using the mouse wheel to adjust a control in the cockpit, it's common to accidentally "slip off" the control while spinning the mouse wheel. In that case, X-Plane will start zooming the view in or out and this can be extremely annoying. This plugin prevents view zooming using the mouse wheel. You can define a joystick button or keyboard key to temporarily enable mouse wheel zoomming. Simply assigning one of the following commands to your controls of choice:
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stopzooming/allow_zoom_hold- while holding down this command, you will be able to zoom using the mouse wheel. When you release the command, mouse-wheel-zoom will be inhibited again. -
stopzooming/allow_zoom_toggle- trigger this command to toggle between enabling and disable mouse wheel zoom.
The plugin doesn't affect joystick or keyboard zoom commands
(sim/general/zoom_*) as well as zooming due to different view presets
(sim/view/quick_look_* or the quick-look functions using NumPad
keys). Those remain fully functional.
Simply unzip the plugin and drop it under Resources/plugins in
X-Plane. Then define your mouse-zoom-allow function as described above
and that's it. There is no further configuration required.
The plugin should work with any X-Plane aircraft. However, it might conflict with camera-control plugins such as X-Camera. The plugin has only been tested with the stock X-Plane camera system.