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

[Alister Hood]

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