Alt-zooming opens the menu

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Mark_Phell
Feb 16, 2009
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When ALT+mousewheel is used to zoom, the ALT press is also interpreted to open the menu, so when I stop zooming, I have to press escape again to get out of the menu. Does anyone else see this? It’s a bit of a pain. Usually, when ALT is used as a modifier for something else, it also cancels it triggering the menu.
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Dennis_S
Feb 17, 2009
You don’t mention what version of PS you are talking about but assuming it is a recent one, why not configure preferences to zoom with the scrollwheel by itself?
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Mark_Phell
Feb 22, 2009
I don’t want to have to relearn strongly established usage habits to work around a bug.
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Phosphor
Feb 22, 2009
It’s likely not a bug, merely a changed behavior.

Just reconfigure your prefs to your liking, and get used to it. Shouldn’t take long, and it’s something everyone here has had to deal with.

It can be aggravating, sure, but whining doesn’t help.

🙂

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