moving grouped symbols
HelenAA
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I'm having recurring problems doing this. I group symbols, sometimes after many times of trying to selecting the symbols, and when I use Quick Move (Ctl-Q), one of two things happen:
1) the group doesn't move at all, or more often
2) the part immediately below the drop down menu goes red and either scales up or down depending on which diagonal I am moving it to using the Accessibility mouse keys (either 1 or 9 on a number pad). The other directions appear to work as expected.
Remy - I'm 90% sure it doesn't have anything to do with my system running on ARM (whatever that stands for). For others reading this, I use a Mac mini with software that enables Windows to run on top of the macOS, this means that some vector templates aren't usable.
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You're not holding down the ctrl key are you?
If you hold down the ctrl key when moving the mouse (including using the mouse accessibility keys), it will do scaling exactly as you describe.
If you are using sticky keys, depending on the config and how many times you hit the key, the ctrl key may stay enabled after using that ctrl+q for quick move causing this behaviour.
I did some testing with these settings on, and found that it is not hard accidentally enabling control.
not knowingly, Remy, but my hands can click things without my knowing it, but the super frustrating thing is when I can't select a grouped set of symbols or having selected it I can't actually move them! The joys of having cerebral palsy hands - not!!!!
If you have sticky keys enabled, there is a status icon down in the tray by the clock (unless it has been hidden) that will indicate if any of the modifier keys (shift/alt/ctrl/win) is currently active or not, like the one from this screenshot where it shows that "control" is active (indicated by the black key)
Since control is also the used as the key to remove something from a selection, an active control key could also be the reason you are not able to select something as you are basically then telling CC3+ to "deselect this"
You could try to avoid the control key altogether by issuing the MOVQ command instead. This is the same as ctrl+q. Of course, this still assumes that the control key haven't been activated and left sticked from earlier, but that should be easy to test, as far as I can tell you can't even begin to type the M in the command if CTRL is active, as it will be interpreted as a shortcut key instead of text input to the command line.
my problem is that the Accessibility key settings on my macOS system over-rides any 'duplicate' settings on the Windows emulator so the lock icon in the task bar in windows doesn't exist for me :(