Bruce Kieffer Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 I'm having random failures using the spacebar to temporarily pan, and the same with spacebar+command, and spacebar+command+option to zoom in and out. I just had to reset my computer to get it to work again. Anyone else noticing this problem? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 4, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 4, 2014 If you tab out and back in to the application does it sometimes restore functionality and sometimes not? Does restarting the machine always fix it? Are other modifier keys not working either? Like holding down shift to click more objects, adding them to the selection, or alt/ctrl to duplicate while clicking and dragging? What other applications are you running? If Vectorworks is just running by itself does the same problem happen? Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 Jim, Tabbing out and back to Vectorworks does not help. I tried that. Restarting always helps. Other modifiers work fine. I usually have Mail, 1Password, SnapScan Manager, Safari, and occasionally an Adobe CS5 app running. I never tried just running Vectorworks alone. Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 For me quitting and restarting Safari fixes this issue. Happens a few times a week... Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 Thanks Peter. I'll give that a try. Obviously there's some bug with either Yosemite or Vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 5, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 5, 2014 This can fix similar issues, though it isnt as complete of a cure-all as it used to be when these issues would crop up in Vectorworks 12.5: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/623/Disk+Utility Painless and worth a shot though, if resetting Safari does not help. Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 It just happened again. Quitting and restarting Safari fixed it. Thanks Peter. Please tell me how the two things are related! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 17, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 17, 2014 Applications on OS X can effectively call dibs on a particular hotkey or set of hotkeys. They are supposed to relinquish it (or ask for it back) when the user switches between active applications, but sometimes this gets stuck. On a few occasions it has been a problem on our end that we were able to patch and on others it has been an issue with the developer of the other software. I'll have this one checked just in case. Quote Link to comment
Bret Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Is this something you've heard of happening in Windows XP/7/8 as well? I occasionally (once every few weeks, maybe) have my clipboard stop working with text correctly within VectorWorks, and I have sometimes had trouble kicking it loose short of logging off or rebooting. I've wondered if it was system-related, VW-related, and/or related to other programs we use commonly in the office (Firefox & OpenOffice, chiefly). Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted November 17, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 17, 2014 Thats a different and normally windows-exclusive issue. I saw it frequently in XP but really haven't encountered it at all since sometime around the Vista era. Quote Link to comment
dtheory Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Chiming in here.. I have the same issue: the using the space-bar to boomerang to the pan tool randomly stops working. FYI I just updated to SP4 and the issue still exists. Restarting always works to restore the function, quitting Safari always works (so far). Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted June 30, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 30, 2015 Looking through records here I am seeing more and more reports of Safari conflicts for hotkeys. I will see if anything can be done (Not always possible when its an Apple app on Mac), adding this thread to those cases now. Quote Link to comment
jmartinarch Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 rookie user comment…I just use my middle mouse button to pan. I'm guessing there is good reason to invoke pan from space bar…? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted June 30, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 30, 2015 If you only have a trackpad or a mouse without a middle button/scroll wheel (or if it is an annoying one) then the spacebar is your friend. Quote Link to comment
dtheory Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 I find that with the left hand doing many hot-key combos, that spacebar (with the left thumb) + mousing more ergonomic in that it just requires less effort in the mousing hand.. might be a subtle difference, but it's more comfortable to me.. also, I have my middle mouse button mapped to spaces and mission control.. Quote Link to comment
Ari Phillips Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Spacebar, Command, Option no longer zooming in or out and really slowing down my work flow. I rely on this hugely to work fast and efficiently. Any ideas. Its not safari as i dont have it open...and dont seem to have any other conflict. I used: Spacebar - Pan Spacebar , Command to zoom in Spacebar, Command, Option to zoom out. This was what i was always using but found it only worked on some workstations.... I have upgraded to Mojav an also my wacom tablet to the latest intuos and wondered if this would be the problem, however i am desperate to find a solution so i am able to use these hotkeys again. Please help...its frustrating not being able to use something when you have spent years and years using it that way..feel a little lost. Please help Thanks Ari Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) This is a problem for me again after so many years. I will try quitting Safari next time, but it looks like @Ari Phillips is having this problem now too. Computer restart is needed. OK, but doing so takes about 5 minutes, and two of those are to boot Vectorworks. Sad. Edited August 19, 2020 by Bruce Kieffer 1 Quote Link to comment
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