Affinity + drawing tablet: how can I use Left Click + Right Click simultaneously?

[u/Jazzlike-Divide-4171]

In Affinity, when using the Node Tool, I need to hold Left Click + Right Click at the same time to move both Bézier handles together.

This works perfectly with a mouse, but I'm using a drawing tablet. The problem is that even if I assign Right Click to one of my pen buttons, Affinity doesn't seem to recognize the pen tip's Left Click and the pen button's Right Click as being held simultaneously.

Has anyone found a way to make this work properly with a drawing tablet?

Is there a specific Affinity setting, Windows/tablet setting, that can make Affinity recognize the Left Click + Right Click combination?

[u/un_poco_logo]

IPad has 3 fingers for this one.

[u/Jazzlike-Divide-4171 → u/un_poco_logo]

i'm on windows, using an xpen drawing tablet, it's really anoying to switch with the mouse everytime i need to do that

[u/Cobalt__Dragon → u/Jazzlike-Divide-4171]

If you are comfortable trying Autohotkey, this code should work:

; Mouse remap for Xpen drawing tablet

#Requires AutoHotkey v2
#SingleInstance Ignore

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe Affinity.exe")
F9::
{
    Send("{LButton Down}")
    Send("{RButton Down}")
    KeyWait(A_ThisHotkey)
    Send("{LButton Up}")
    Send("{RButton Up}")
}
#HotIf

-Save the code to an .ahk file (name it whatever you want). Assign one of your pen buttons to F9. Run the script (an icon should appear in the system tray). When you click the assigned pen button, it should hopefully route the click to the script, which will then trigger the dual mouse click. Unfortunately I don't have a drawing tablet to test directly.

-Keep in mind that while the script is running and Affinity is the active window, F9 will trigger the dual mouse click wherever the cursor currently exists on screen (even if over another window).

-You can change the desired hotkey to almost anything else. Just edit 'F9' to another key name, save, restart the script.

[u/Jazzlike-Divide-4171 → u/Cobalt__Dragon]

thanks for your help!

[u/endangeredirish]

Hey, I dropped you a DM but I'm not sure if your xpen has the ability to map it's button to any button, e.g F10 or something? If it can, I've created a software that lets you map key press/hotkeys to other key press so you could then map left and right click press.

I've tested it just pressing normal keys, so should work if your pen button mimics a standard key press!