Oleg's Blog

Now I'm going to share with you one of my favourite (from now on) new feature of Opera 9.5 Kestrel. It's called "Scroll is Pan".

"Scroll is Pan" is a new feature in Kestrel which allow users to feel themselves like they are using Photoshop or Actobat to browse webpages! Just hold down Ctrl + Alt & use the Left button on the mouse to "drag" the webpage around just like the "Hand" feature in Photoshop or Adobe Acrobat. Cool, ah?

But now I'm going to tell you how to do it even more handy for use with Wacom tablet. Note, this tutorial was made for Wacom Intuos3 series. I don't know how this (and is this) might be suitable for others.

1. Open Windows control panel (don't know how to perform this step in OS X) and launch Wacom Tablet Properties item. It looks like on the next image for me:
   
   
2. Select the Grip Pen from the Tool list and press [+] button to add another application.
   
   
3. If you have Opera launched, just select it from the list. If not — browse for it.
   
   
4. Now select Opera from the Application list (if it's not selected after the previous step) and choose Modifier from the dropdown list, as showed next:
   
   
5. Check Alt and Ctrl cheeckboxes and hit OK.
   
   
6. There it is! Close Wacom Table Properties window and Windows Control panel if you not gonna need them.
   

And here you go! Just hold down the Grip Pen button that you've linked modifier to, and try to "draw" something on the page... Ah? Isn't it amazing?? I just love this!
And, of course, I love Opera browser!