feat(web): pinch to zoom and scroll expanded images by t3dotgg · Pull Request #10718 · pingdotgg/t3code

t3dotgg · 2026-09-08T10:56:55Z

Expanded screenshots could not zoom. The first implementation added pinch handling, but it canceled two-finger scrolling and moved the image through React state. Larger pinch samples were capped, which changed the response based on how the browser grouped input events.

The image now sits in a real scroll area. The browser handles two-finger scrolling, diagonal panning, and momentum. Pinch preserves the image point under the pointer and uses Chromium's scale conversion without an event speed cap. It updates the image transform and scroll bounds directly. A click toggles fitted and actual size, and dragging pans. Image navigation resets zoom. Resizing keeps the same image point at the center.

This applies to expanded images in web and Electron, including remote attachments. Videos, extracted text, and the separate React Native client keep their existing behavior.

Validation: 12 focused tests, web typecheck, targeted lint, and diff checks pass. Theo is testing the gestures in the running Electron dev app with imported image attachments. Manual gesture validation and a recording are pending.

The original commits by Theo Browne are preserved. Reworked in Codex.

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New Features
- Improved expanded image viewing with smoother zooming, panning, and pinch gestures.
- Added support for Safari trackpad pinch gestures.
- Ctrl+wheel zooms images, while two-finger scrolling pans zoomed images.
- Clicking an image toggles zoom, with zoom levels capped appropriately.
- Image positioning now adapts when the viewport is resized.
Bug Fixes
- Improved zoom anchoring, centering, and movement limits across viewport sizes.
Tests
- Expanded coverage for zooming, panning, resizing, wheel behavior, and click interactions.

The expanded image dialog showed screenshots at a fixed size. Trackpad pinch did nothing, so small text in a screenshot could not be read. The image now zooms around the pointer on pinch or wheel, zooms to 2.5x on double click, and pans by drag while zoomed. Only the CSS transform changes, so the work stays on the compositor. Created with Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The expanded image dialog now uses scroll-based zoom state and a dedicated ZoomableImage component for anchored zooming, drag-to-pan, wheel and Safari gesture input, click zoom, resize handling, and zoom utility tests.

Changes

Expanded image zoom

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Zoom state and geometry `apps/web/src/components/chat/imageZoom.ts`, `apps/web/src/components/chat/imageZoom.test.ts`	Replaces translation offsets with scroll offsets. Adds anchored zoom layout, resize preservation, scale limits, wheel conversion, click zoom limits, and corresponding tests.
Dialog interaction integration `apps/web/src/components/chat/ZoomableImage.tsx`	Adds the zoomable image viewport. It handles wheel and Safari gesture zooming, pointer dragging, click zoom, image loading, resize observation, DOM rendering, and listener cleanup.
Dialog surface wiring `apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImageDialog.tsx`	Stores the dialog surface ref, attaches it to the dialog root, and passes it with close and error callbacks to `ZoomableImage`.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d836a

Expanded images now support zooming and panning with bounded scale, anchored positioning, and resize handling. The prior unintended-pan behavior has been addressed, with no remaining merge-blocking risk identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant DialogSurface
  participant ZoomableImage
  participant imageZoom
  User->>DialogSurface: wheel, gesture, pointer, or click input
  DialogSurface->>ZoomableImage: receive interaction event
  ZoomableImage->>imageZoom: calculate zoom layout or scroll state
  imageZoom-->>ZoomableImage: return updated scale and scroll offsets
  ZoomableImage-->>User: render and scroll the image

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github-actions · 2026-09-08T11:01:33Z

Thread transfer impact

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macroscopeapp · 2026-09-08T11:04:20Z

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR replaces simple expanded-image rendering with a substantial production interaction layer for pinch zooming, scrolling, dragging, click zoom, and responsive resizing. The new browser gesture and event-handling behavior has a meaningful runtime surface and is not a small bounded change.

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The pan bounds assumed the image center sat at the viewport center. The caption below the image pushes it up, so a vertical pan could stop with a strip of backdrop showing at one edge. The bounds now account for the image's real center. A window resize also reclamps the pan.

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Pinch zoomed at the wrong rate, two-finger scroll did nothing, and the zoom-in cursor promised a click that did nothing. Pinch now follows Chromium's ctrl+wheel rate, two-finger scroll pans, click toggles between fitted and actual size, and gestures work anywhere in the dialog. Safari gesture events are handled as well.

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In `@apps/web/src/components/chat/ExpandedImageDialog.tsx`:
- Line 239: Update the pointer-press handler in ExpandedImageDialog so every
primary pointer press captures the pointer, rather than only when zoomed,
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coderabbitai · 2026-09-08T11:44:49Z

+          startY: event.clientY,
+          moved: false,
+        };
+        if (zoomed) event.currentTarget.setPointerCapture(event.pointerId);


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Capture every primary pointer press.

At 1×, this condition lets a pointer leave the image before release. The image then misses onPointerUp, so dragRef remains populated. After zooming, a later mouse move with the same pointer ID can pan the image without a press.

Capture the pointer for every primary press, or clear dragRef from a surface-level pointerup handler.

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- if (zoomed) event.currentTarget.setPointerCapture(event.pointerId); + event.currentTarget.setPointerCapture(event.pointerId);

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if (zoomed) event.currentTarget.setPointerCapture(event.pointerId);

event.currentTarget.setPointerCapture(event.pointerId);

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juliusmarminge · 2026-09-09T23:39:51Z

Superseded by #10869 (zoom and pan for expanded images), which already landed on main. Closing this PR to keep the queue clean — reopen if anything unique from this branch still needs merging.

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fix(web): drop unused MIN_IMAGE_ZOOM export

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