Hand Tool / Spacebar behavior

JL
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Jerry_Lodriguss
Jan 24, 2004
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What’s the deal with the behavior of the spacebar in CS?

Pressing the spacebar used to call up the hand tool when the Levels dialog box was open.

Now pressing the spacebar OKs the dialog box.

Jerry
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Mike Russell
Jan 24, 2004
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What’s the deal with the behavior of the spacebar in CS?
Pressing the spacebar used to call up the hand tool when the Levels dialog box was open.

Now pressing the spacebar OKs the dialog box.

Jerry,

This sounds like a window focus issue where the system interprets the space bar as a click on the OK button. – I’ve coded that bug a dozen times.

Try clicking on the image window before pressing the space bar and see if the hand tool works then.

If that fixes it, I’d suggest adding your bug to the list – it may earn you a T-shirt!
http://www.adobe.com/misc/bugreport.html
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Mike Russell
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LenHewitt
Jan 24, 2004
Jerry,

At a guess I would say its an oversight, but until Scott or Chris respond it will remain a guess.

It is ‘normal behaviour’ for the space bar to be an alternative to the return key in d/boxes (not just in Photoshop) and requires additional code to prevent it from being so.
JL
Jerry_Lodriguss
Jan 25, 2004
Hi Len,

Well, at least I figured out how to access the hand tool with a dialog box open…

You have to hit the spacebar and the H key at the same time now.

Thanks,

Jerry
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LenHewitt
Jan 25, 2004
Jerry,

You have to hit the spacebar and the H key at the same time now.<<

Thanks for coming back with that – something I’ve learned today…
SB
Scott_Byer
Jan 26, 2004
Hit Alt-C to focus on the Channels popup, then the spacebar will behave normally. Default focus in a couple of dialogs was changed to the OK button (as per Microsoft’s logo spec), and when a button has focus, the spacebar "presses" it (keyboard only navigation).

As long as focus is in a combo box or edit field, the spacebar will behave as it should.

-Scott

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