Artboard Moves Around in Affinity Designer Window

[Rick Granick]

New user here. I'm using Affinity Designer v. 2 on a Mac M1 desktop in Mac OS13.

When moving my wireless mouse to move the cursor from one area of the artboard to another, it often causes the artboard to move around within the overall Designer window.

Is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks!

Rick Granick

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums @Rick Granick 

It should require a combination of holding down the Spacebar + Left Click and drag. The Spacebar is a toggle for the View tool (Hand). If you already have the View Tool selected, then just holding down the Spacebar while dragging your mouse will move the view area (canvas).

What Wireless Mouse are you using?

[Rick Granick]

On 9/9/2024 at 8:51 PM, Ron P. said:

What Wireless Mouse are you using?

It's an Apple Magic Mouse, standard equipment on recent Macs.

[Ron P.]

I don't use Macs, so know next to nothing about them. However there's a lot of posts about problems people are having with Magic Mouse.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=apple+magic+mouse+site%3Aforum.affinity.serif.com&ia=web

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, Ron P. said:

However there's a lot of posts about problems people are having with Magic Mouse.

Specifically, how hard it is to avoid accidentally scrolling around a document if your finger just touches the surface & moves sightly. Some users do not have probems with this but others do.

So maybe try being very careful not to rest a finger on the touch-sensitive surface when you just want to move the pointer & see if that helps.