Photoshop: Ability to use middle mouse button as hand tool

Hi!

I would like to adress my question directly to the enginers, hope some of you will answer me: how does it possible that since PS CS5 there are full of threads about the need of middle mouse button as a key for using hand tool, but we still have no option and we forced to use third party softwares for that. 

 

I know there are many users (so am I) want to have this option in photoshop as in every other graphic software, even the simplest ones support this possibility. It would be very much appreciated to have this simple shortcut setting. 

 

Thank you in advance.

Vic

It was just that there seems to be hundreds of different shortcuts available and I didn't know where to find that one! Asking its users bring more fruit than google, as I couldn't find the answer there! I shall keep looking, Thank you 

Yeah, I had. I never use it! Lets leave the Lightroom for Kindle idea in the drawer, though! I stand corrected! Dave

I think you misunderstood, This would be as simple as changing the hotkey from holding space to holding the middle mouse button
I forgot I had posted this, Thanks for helping though!

Do you understand that there is a button beneath the mouse wheel?  

How many people have a three button mouse?  Only MAC users, and not all MAC users... PC users would have no use for this idea. Cost of making this available weighed against incremental revenues for Adobe? This sort of thing has to make fiscal sense to get "on the table" for any company. This gets put in the drawer along with suggestions for Lightroom For Kindle.

I am unaware where i've got this from but I keep trying to move my screen (not a specific object) to travel to a different area whilst zoomed, Just wondering if there's a way to change it from holding space to just using the middle mouse button to move around?

Hello there,

Well, i noticed that because the autohotkey send both space and left-mouse presses at the same time it makes photoshop think that you pressed the left key for adding another point when using lasso tool...

To help fix this i added a small delay between the space press and the left-mouse press and also for the press release after...

That so it feels like when you press space and then press left-mouse in order, to pan, and then when you release the left-mouse first then release the space bar after.
And as usual it starts off and you turn it on/off using scroll lock key.


SetScrollLockState, Off
Suspend, On

~ScrollLock::
   Suspend, Toggle

MButton::
Send {Space Down}
Sleep 30
Send {LButton Down}
KeyWait, MButton
Send {LButton Up}
Sleep 30
Send {Space Up}
Return

Hey guys, I have problem with the script. When I'm using Rectang or Lasso, pressing MMB also picking the next point. Do you have any idea to fix it?

;Here's my Autohotkey script. Enjoy.... U can copy and paste all of it;;;;;;;;;;;;;

#If WinActive("ahk_class Photoshop") or WinActive("ahk_class PSFloatC")

XButton1:: ; _______________________alt+controll+z = muose button 3 ;step backwards
sendInput ^!z 
return

XButton2:: ; _______________________shift+controll+z = mouse button 4 ;step forward
sendInput ^Z
return

MButton:: ; ________________________h = middle mouse button ; handtool
sendInput h
return

Up:: ; _____________________________shift+ < = up arrow = increase brush size 
send, +<
return

Down:: ; ___________________________< = down arrow = degrease brush size
send, <
return

Left:: ; ___________________________,  = left arrow = previus brush
send, b
send, ,
return

Right:: ; ___________________________. = right arrow = next brush 
send, b
send, .
return

Insert:: ; __________________________controll+a = insert = select all
send, ^a
return

End:: ; ____________________________controll+alt+shift+e = end = copy visible layers 
send, ^!E 
return

NumpadIns::Alt ; _____________________alt = numpad 0 = alt key

Home:: ; _____________________________controll+shift+i = home = select inverse
send, ^I
return

PgUp:: ; _____________________________controll+shift+d page up = select reselect
send, +^d
return

PgDn:: ; _____________________________controll+d = page down = deselect
send, ^d
return

#IfWinActive

return