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add keyboard shortcut to every tools

Adding shortcut for every tool would be great for faster tool selection without having to use the mouse to select and move the cursor back to the position for editing.

Make use of keyboard. Example for this would be awwapp.com, which have shortcut for most of the tools.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Provide keyboard shortcuts for ruler rotation. the shortcuts can then programmed into the graphic tablet buttons

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    spacebar for pan mode if missing so much. its a standard in all drawing apps!

    this makes is need to play with pen + mouse on a graphic tablet instead of doing all with the pen

  • Igor commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I love microsoft and try to use its apps as much as I can. But how can it take so long to implement things like these with so many upvotes. I don't understand.

  • BlairJohnston commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! Especially hold spacebar for pan mode so I can use my tablet like in other drawing apps. And for tool selection.

  • Alex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any news about it?
    Any thoughts how to move board by tablet but without mouse?

  • Sheldon Swanson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree, as an educator doing live online courses it is a huge pain to move back to the mouse to simply select the eraser.

  • Miguel Guzman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is HIGHLY IMPORTANT for third-party tablets to be able to associate their buttons with Whiteboard's features and tools.

  • hegdesaspect commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Keyboard shortcuts are so fundamental towards increased productivity. Please provide the shortcuts. Also helps mapping to buttons on the passive pens.

    Note that when you implement shortcuts to color pens, provide a cyclic shortcut also. That means, pressing the same shortcut, should cycle through pen selection.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Including a pan tool along with this would also fix the problem of not being able to pan the canvas unless you have touch support.

  • Mason commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hot keys can be assigned to buttons on graphics tab. easily switch between colors, pan, or eraser tool. MUCH NEEDED

  • Jason B commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed, it would increase productivity to be able to quickly map eraser to a button on my pen. Having keyboard shortcuts makes that feasible.

  • Jayson Strayer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! When in pen mode, I would like to get out by just hitting "ESC" I kept doing that because it felt so natural. A nice shortcut to get into pen mode would be good, too, e.g., space bar (or maybe ":" for VI users :D).

  • Chris G. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with this. This would also allow me to use my tablet buttons to hotkey pen color changes and stuff like that.

    As a teacher, this would be super helpful as I record and livestream as I'm using the whiteboard app for my students.

  • Ioannis Skias commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Totally needed! Especially for graphic pen tablet users. All those express keys could be assigned to useful functions...

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