Help, mac keyboard issues.
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- jimeeboy51
My spacebar works on almost everything, but suddenly, when I use spacebar to move around my canvas in illy or pshop, it no longer turns into the hand tool. Any idea why this might be?
Another issue in illy is that when I hold down the Shift key to keep my transformations constrant, it doesn't apply the constrant anymore. WTH is going on with my mac.
Its not a keyboard issue, bc all keys work for other apps. Just these noticable issues so far. This is slowing down my productivity. Please help?
- warheros0
because the hand tool is H, maybe that is why the spacebar dont work?
dont know, never used the spacebar.
- jimeeboy510
You must be new...FYI, while on other tools like the selection tool, you can hit the spacebar and the hand icon will show up and you can drag around your canvas in most design apps. When you let go, it turns back into the original tool you had.
- 5timuli0
Sounds like an Illustrator problem, not a keyboard one. I'd try a reinstall.
- 5timuli0
Oops - should have read more! If it's in more than one app that's weird. What happens when you type, if you hold down the space bar does it keep generating spaces?
- warheros0
im not new, but that's cool, didnt know that.
- jimeeboy510
Typing is fine....unless my typing looks screwed up to you. Its just an illy and pshop issue when it comes to using the spacebar to get the hand drag tool. And its just an illy issue when it comes to holding shift down to constrant my transformations.
Any other suggestions? I want to try to troubleshoot it myself before i bug the IT guy.
- warheros0
hmmm....try restarting?
- jimeeboy510
yup...3x already. Its driving me nuts. I can't even hold down shift to move stuff and keep it on the same axis. This bites!
- 5timuli0
Sounds to me like corrupt docs or an Adobe problem. Can't see how it could be anything else if the keyboard's working fine with everything else.
- 5timuli0
OK, that didn't make sense, did it?! Feck it, it's Friday night! Shut down and have a beer!
http://www.redstripebeer.com/
- jimeeboy510
Happy hour.
T -1.40m and counting.
- 5timuli0
Actually, now I think about it, what operating system are you using and what mouse? I had this problem a while back with Mac OS X and a Macally iOptinet.