[Qgis-user] Modifier Key to activate Mouse Panning/Zooming of Map Canvas

Mars marsofearth at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 20:07:46 PDT 2011


Yes thank you everyone  

The Spacebar trick fir panning is the one I was looking for. 
Perfect!

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On 2011-10-31, at 2:29 PM, "Alister Hood" <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:

> And of course you can also pan using the arrow keys and zoom using Page
> Up / Page Down.
> 
>> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:23:32 +1000
>> From: Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Modifier Key to activate Mouse
>>    Panning/Zooming of Map    Canvas
>> To: Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
>> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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>> You can also pan by pressing space at anytime with any tool selected.
> The
>> location of the pan becomes the start drag point
>> 
>> - Nathan
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Andreas Neumann
> <a.neumann at carto.net>wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Given that one can already pan and zoom with the middle mouse
> button/wheel
>>> I am not sure what the modifier keys would add to usability, rather
> than
>>> making things more complicated (collisions with selector tools and
> with
>>> shortcuts - complications with different OS/platforms)?
>>> 
>>> Andreas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:29:45 +1300, Alister Hood wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Mars,
>>>> Could you be slightly more specific about what you want the
> modifier key
>>>> to do?  Do you want it to pan if you hold down a key while clicking
> and
>>>> dragging, regardless of what tool is selected, and to zoom if you
> hold
>>>> down another key?
>>>> Do you realise that you can pan by dragging with the middle mouse
>>>> button, regardless of what tool is selected?  And zoom by scrolling
> the
>>>> mouse wheel?
>>>> 
>>>> Alister
>>>> 
>>>> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:28:10 -0700
>>>>> From: Mars Sjoden <marsofearth at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [Qgis-user] Modifier Key to activate Mouse
> Panning/Zooming of
>>>>>       Map     Canvas
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>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just wondering if there is a Modifier Key to activate Mouse
>>>>> 
>>>> Panning/Zooming
>>>> 
>>>>> of the Map Canvas while using another tool so as to not need to
> switch
>>>>> 
>>>> back
>>>> 
>>>>> and forth between tools.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>> mars



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