Editor: "graphical scene" navigation controls shared between Room and GUI Editors

[ivan-mogilko]

The proposal is to have either a parent control class, or at least a conveniently shared code for both Room Editor and GUI Editor, that supports uniform navigation around the scene area:

• scrolling
• panning
• zooming

using same mouse and keyboard combination and hotkeys.

Use Room Editor as a reference, as it supports everything necessary.

Current Room Editor controls, from my memory:

• hold Space + LMB: panning
• hold MMB: panning
• mouse wheel: scroll vertically
• Shift + mouse wheel: scroll horizontally
• Ctrl + mouse wheel: zoom into/out from mouse pos

[ericoporto]

Not sure if I am doing something wrong, but the spacebar pan doesn't seem to work on my notebook, I wonder if it's keyboard just doesn't support holding the spacebar like it does holding Ctrl, Alt or other modifier keys. I googled and found a ton of people with the problem of spacebar pan not working in Photoshop. If there was a tool in the toolbar, then it could use a shortcut that activates it and later deactivates it - or at least just clicking the tool button directly. I noticed this when I wanted to try to fix the other issue about cursor glitches but I couldn't activate it.

[ivan-mogilko]

To double check, are you holding only Space, or Space + LMB?

[ericoporto]

Hold space, and then I left click with the mouse to drag. It works on my desktop but not on my notebook.

[ivan-mogilko]

I noticed that there's a problem with panning with middle mouse button, it looks like the panning mode keeps turning off for a split second, and this causes "freezes" while moving. Idk if the Editor's problem or something is wrong with my mouse device (it's pretty old).

[ericoporto]

Uhm, I found a person on a forum that says it's an issue with Palm Protection bugging out in notebooks - it thinks I want to type stuff when it sees a spacebar being pressed. It should just block the touchpad but it's apparently blocking mouse clicks...

Trying to figure if there's a way to disable this to test. Edit: nope, can't disable, only doesn't trigger with external keyboard.