CS6: May I suggest to use the middle mouse button as hand tool? So pressing down middle mouse button will drag the image. This will be more convenient because we can drag the image using simply the mouse, instead of having to use the current method of both keyboard+mouse.
I used Photoshop today for the first time in years (before mice had middle buttons!) and I can't believe it doesn't support middle mouse button dragging. This has been standard on every imaging software since about 2004, even 3D design software.
I signed up in here just to request this feature, and not even in CS6 or 7, i want it in CS5 that i currently have.
Using 3Ds Max and AutoCad all 24/7 and then switching to Photoshop and my brain can't stop holding Center-Click to Pan.
I looked every where in the Shortcuts menu trying to set CS5 to pan by holding center-click but couldn't find any way to do it, and i looked every where on the internet for how to do that even with a script or something but couldn't find any.
This really needs to be available soon as an update for CS5, before my brain explodes. 0.o
I'll put it this way. There are free open source softwares that have better and more up to date movement schemes.
Tell you what, how come your whole "key shortcuts" scheme is so rigid? Rename it to "input mapping", have it catch events(MOUSE_UP etc) from all input devices, done. Heck, do it in reverse, have it list input events first, and what it invokes in the second column. No more empty lines. Add a "new event" button, users clicks on it, you catch the event, let the user select an action associated with it.
No more meddling in this regard for you, more freedom for us, less headache for everyone.
If you have a gaming mouse you can rebind the middle mouse button to "h+left mouse button" and move that way. I have a razer mamba 2012 and was abled to rebind the key in the synapse software. It's still really BS that Adobe doesn't properly integrate a feature that even the most basic free programms have...
maybe adobe is too busy working on other ways to get users to subscribe to their yearly creative cloud, than to bother with any real convenience improvements for users
Can someone please explain what to do with these scripts (what file type to save them as, where to put them and how they get executed) - I have never created one for Photoshop before.
I've just tried copy / pasting those two scripts from Ehab and Veybi and saving them as a pan.jsx file, putting that into a script folder and going to Scripts Events Manager under "File" Menu and they both give errors......
Yeah JezE, i already mentioned in my post that the script is for an application Named AutoHotKey. :)
And both Scripts that i and Veybi posted are the same, it is just that mine gets turned on and off using Scroll Lock key while Veybi's works only when photoshop is running.
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This AutoHotkey script is just what I was looking for! I had already tried with AutoHotkey but unsuccessfully due to my lack of programming skills.
Still, I have one enhancement to add to the script. Currently it only works in Photoshop itself but not in Third party plugins or even tools like Liquify that have their own window. I think this one will work for those windows too:
Instead of using the class of the window to identify it, I use the main process where the window is being executed (photoshop.exe). Note this will affect also windows like open and save, meaning if you have your middle button configured to do something special in Explorer windows, it will not work here, but this is a minor price to pay and imperceptible for almost everybody.
Have a look to my response to Teodor for a more enhanced version of the script valid for all Adobe Apps.
Teodor, just use the same script but replace the word photoshop with indesign or illustrator. Or even better, use this enhanced script:
GroupAdd, MMButtonEQspace, ahk_exe Photoshop.exe GroupAdd, MMButtonEQspace, ahk_exe InDesign.exe GroupAdd, MMButtonEQspace, ahk_exe Illustrator.exe GroupAdd, MMButtonEQspace, ahk_exe AcroRD32.exe GroupAdd, MMButtonEQspace, ahk_exe Muse.exe ;GroupAdd, MMButtonEQspace, ahk_exe Acrobat.exe ; And so on for every App I forgot where you want ; to use this trick.
This script will only work with apps that use Space Bar + Left Mouse Button as the hand tool, Of course. Acrobat Reader already implements the Wheel button pan, but it works better with Space Bar + Left Mouse Button, so I have included it too. After Effects, Bridge, Fuse and Animate (former Flash) already have it implemented. Acrobat DC has it implemented but in a different way so feel free to try it by removing the ";"
;Here's my Autohotkey script. Enjoy.... U can copy and paste all of it;;;;;;;;;;;;;
#If WinActive("ahk_class Photoshop") or WinActive("ahk_class PSFloatC") ;WinActive is suppose to prevent autohotkeys from interfering with other programs while ;it's on ;PSFloatC is the window that is open when Photoshop is active
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