Keyboard cursor arrow to pan left / right ?

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Hi guys 
 how can i set keyboard arrows to move left and right view ? ( Not mouse pan but keyboard - without out of my work command )

Barry Lothian · Accepted Answer

I don't think its possible without a little help. 
 MicroStation doesn't give you the functionality to configure keyboard shortcuts so we have to use what options it gives you. 
 I managed to do it this way: 
 
 Open up the Function Keys dialog 
 Choose 2No. F-key's which you will assign the view pan strings to, I chose F2 and F3 for my test: F2: move left;selview 1
F3: move right;selview 1 
 Close the Function Key Dialog. 
 Install AutoHotKey: https://www.autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe 
 Copy and paste the below script into notepad and save with an appropriate name and the .ahk extension e.g. MS-ArrowKey-Pan.ahk #IfWinActive ahk_exe ustation.exe
Left::F2

Right::F3 
 Double-click the AHK file, and then open a DGN file. 
 Press the Left and Right arrow keys to see your view move. 
 
 Obviously, you cannot see my hands in this clip, however, this is what happens when I press the arrow keys:

Barry Lothian · Answer

When you have the AHK file running, go to the system tray, right click the Green H icon and press Window Spy 
 
 Click on your open MicroStation CONNECT application window, and see what it says here:

Ron Jones · Answer

Hi martinezx, 
 You can already do this by using Alt + Wheel to pan left or right. 
 This can be customized in your Preferences . You can see in this image that I have changed Ctrl + Wheel to also Pan Up/Down. Navigate Distance(Mouse) controls the percentage of screen distance moved. 
 
 Regards, Ron

Lorys · Answer

Hi Barry, 
 I found this in help there is a factor you can apply default is 0.25 or 25%

Key in MOVE <DOWN | LEFT | RIGHT | UP> [factor] . Factor is the amount of the view to scroll. If factor is omitted the view is scrolled by the default factor &mdash; 0.25 (one fourth of the view). 
 I have a 5 button mouse and I added xbutton 4 in the mouse remap to use 
 move right;selview 1 
 but it waits for me to use data point mouse LB in view 1, but it stays resident and I can keep LMB in view 1 over and over and it keeps moving... and RMB reset ends the command...now I like it to repeat with the LMB... 
 Interestingly that with using it in an F key it terminates the key in after running it no data point needed... 
 I just found out all of this is redundant FOR LEFT and for RIGHT MOVE ... just use ALT and scroll wheel in or out to achieve a nice steady move or pan right or left.. works great! 
 Using Microstation nearly 30 years and I just found it !.. must have missed it when we introduced 3 button mouse updates maybe aroum XM version...

Keyboard cursor arrow to pan left / right ?

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