How can I pan/move the camera in the editor? (SOLVED)

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I can’t seem to find out how to pan. I’ve tried everything that I can think of. Here’s what I’ve tried and what it does. I do not have a middle mouse button, but I use an AutoHotkey script to emulate the middle mouse button whenever I hold the left and right mouse buttons down.

Ctrl + Left Click: Nothing.
Ctrl + Right Click: Nothing.
Ctrl + Middle Mouse Button: Nothing.

Shift + Left Click: Nothing.
Shift + Right Click: Nothing.
Shift + Middle Mouse Button: Nothing.

Alt + Left Click: Nothing.
Alt + Right Click: Allows me to zoom.
Alt + Middle Mouse Button: Nothing.

Essentially the only thing I can do in the Scene editor, Tile Map editor and other editors is zoom via holding Alt and Right Click.

All help is appreciated, thanks. If there were a way to enable scroll bars or something on the editor that would also work for me.

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Yes, you can. Check out http://www.defold.com/doc/scene-editing

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Thanks, but could you read my post please.

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Have you tried to change the mouse setting to one button mode? I don’t know if an auto hotkey emulation works.

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I tried it, but sadly it did not work.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

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The combination is alt + middle (wheel) button.
I think the problem with AHK middle button emulation is that first it sends one button (left or right, whichever was the first one) and then the middle button. I’ve been playing with it and if there was any key sent between alt and middle button then the panning will not work.
Could you try to emulate middle button with some other key?

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Thanks for the input!

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Using a different key seems to work, thanks.

I suppose the best solution would be to use a different mouse that has a working middle mouse button.

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No mousepad support? I’m trying but it just doesn’t work as expected.

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Mousepads work. Alt+left click should work when panning

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Not in defold 1, I tried the pre-release defold2 and works fine but it’s slow idk why. Maybe it consumes too much ram. Even unity3d works faster on my laptop when selecting elements and moving around.

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Ah, editor one has another key-combo that I’ve forgotten… it’s two keys plus left mouse button. The manual on scene editing should mention it.

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Thank you, I just figured it out for defold1.
Changing to Mouse Type: One Button

CTRL + ALT + LEFT CLICK

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This should be in the documentation. At the moment it says:

Pan: Alt + left mouse button.
Pan (editor 1): Alt + Middle button (three button mouse) or Option + Ctrl + Mouse button (one button mouse)

First of all, Option vs Alt is not clear (I assume Option is for Mac keyboards, but I use Alt + Ctrl + Mouse just fine). Second, it doesn’t even hint at the possibility of changing the mode in Preferences.

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Hi @naktinis!

Please add documentation issues directly on the documentation page. See the “Spotted an error” down to the bottom right? Click that and you’ll send the note directly to @sicher so he can collect all doc fixes.

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