Better canvas lock

Experimental plugin for Obsidian, that lock the "view" of canvas. You can disable:

• Zoom
• Selection of canvas
• Drag and drop of canvas
• Scroll

It will monkey-patch the lock function using monkey-around, so you just need to enable the plugin to make it work. Also, canvas are detected on the active-leaf-change.

You can also enable/disable the logs in the console. Beware, because the logs spam the console, and you will see redondant error.

Note

For some "usefulness", the dragging / scrolling is enabled when a canvas card is focused, so you can move freely the canvas and adjust the view (SHIFT+2) on a specific card if you need. To disable again the dragging, just click away (or escape) from the canvas card.

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📥 Installation

• From Obsidian's community plugins
• Using BRAT with https://github.com/mara-li/obsidian-better-canvas-lock
• From the release page:
• Download the latest release
• Unzip better-canvas-lock.zip in .obsidian/plugins/ path
• In Obsidian settings, reload the plugin
• Enable the plugin

🤖 Developing

To make changes to this plugin, first ensure you have the dependencies installed.

pnpm install

To start building the plugin with what mode enabled run the following command:

pnpm run dev

Note If you haven't already installed the hot-reload-plugin you'll be prompted to. You need to enable that plugin in your obsidian vault before hot-reloading will start. You might need to refresh your plugin list for it to show up. To start a release build run the following command:

pnpm run build

Note You can use the .env file with adding the key VAULT_DEV to specify the path to your Obsidian (development) vault. This will allow you to test your plugin without specify each times the path to the vault.

📤 Export

You can use the pnpm run export command to export your plugin to your Obsidian Main Vault. To do that, you need the .env file with the following content:

VAULT="path/to/your/obsidian/vault"
VAULT_DEV="path/to/your/dev/vault"

🎼 Languages

• English
• French

To add a translation:

• Fork the repository
• Add the translation in the src/i18n/locales folder with the name of the language (ex: fr.json)
• Copy the content of the en.json file in the new file
• Translate the content
• Create a pull request