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MasterPlan

Visual planning ideaboard, by indie devs, for indie devs and creatives · By SolarLune

Spacebar

A topic by Rickodesea created Sep 22, 2021 Views: 231 Replies: 3
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Is it possible to give spacebar the same function as the middle mouse button.

For example:

While holding the spacebar and moving the mouse around gives the same effect as holding down the mouse button.

Reasons:

Not everyone might have middle mouse button.

Middle mouse button might be hard/uncomfortable to use for some users

In Addition:

Since the software is more graphical in nature, it can take some inspiration from 'Blender' in how to apply moving around the the view and hotkeys.

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Hello! That's an interesting idea, though I kind of wonder why you'd use the spacebar and mouse to pan when you could just use WASD? In any case, I can definitely add that functionality as an option.

I guess it depends a bit on the mouse you are using, but I also prefer using the spacebar and mouse to drag (in Affinity Photo for example). This was actually the first thing I tried when I started the demo ^^" I find it hard after a while to hold (or press it often) the middle mouse button so I always remap it, if possible.

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Welp, I have added a shortcut for panning, and the functionality for keyboard or mouse buttons to be used for shortcuts, in the next version of MasterPlan. In the next big update, you'll be able to change panning to use space (or any other key, or mouse button apart from the middle mouse button) to pan. Thanks for the suggestion!