pan/zoom on 2D graphs

[ssfrr]

When plotting high-density data I often use the pan/zoom functions in PlotlyJS. It would be super useful to be able to navigate similiarly in a 2D Makie scene.

PlotlyJS's box zoom behavior is also very nice, where it lets you either define a rectangle to zoom or zoom just along the x or y axes, depending on how you drag. That seems lower-priority than basic pan/zoom though.

[SimonDanisch]

This is actually implemented in a branch and will be part of the first release :)

[ssfrr]

great!

BTW I'm really enjoying playing around with Makie so far. It's soooo fast!

[timholy]

One of my episodic needs for plotting has come up. Any updates on this? Is there a branch I could play with/help with?

[SimonDanisch]

Sorry I made a bit of a mess of the branches while refactoring - there is currently no version that actually offers the full functionality of makie and the improved camera... But the camera builds uppon the example from JuliaGL/GLVisualize.jl#145, so you might already be familiar with it.
I'm currently just getting back at giving the camera refactor branch update it deserves - I really hope to finish it soon enough so people can play around with the new design!

[grero]

The ability to zoom on 2d plots would indeed be useful to me, too. Any updates on this?

[SimonDanisch]

This should be long implemented ;) Maybe we want it to behave a bit different - but that should go into another issue!

[grero]

oh, cool! Just to clarify, though, the current way this zooming works is to zoom the entire plot, right, basically like a 2D image of sorts? That's what I see when scroll the mouse on a 2D plot. I guess what I had in mind was something where the axis limits are updated as the user zooms in/out. Is there a separate issue for this somewhere?