topic Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning in Maya Forum

Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:54:38 GMT

I cannot pan with the middle mouse button. Instead, I keep getting this error when I try to pan:

// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/artAttrSkinWeightCopy.mel line 17: Nothing is selected. Please select a vertex to copy weights from.

I've tried resetting preferences to default. I've tried another mouse. I've also tried deleting that script. But nothing works.

Thanks for any help!

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

sean.heasley — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:19:07 GMT

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the community!

It's odd that resetting your settings didn't solve this.

If you open a fresh scene of Maya and try to pan does this still occur?

You may want to check to make sure all of your drivers are up to date.

Steps to update your drivers can be found here!

Let me know if anything changes!

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:11:56 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I've tried everything I can think of. I just bought a new mouse, no luck. I've uninstalled Maya along with every Maya folder, did a clean install, and the problem is still there. I've gone into the Maya folder in Documents and deleted the year folder, restarted, and that doesn't work. I've spent two days trying to figure this out and I'm not sure what else to try now. I found another person with this problem from searching, but it seems there was no solution in that case, either: http://www.11secondclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=23977.

Is there any alternative way to pan, other than Alt+Middle click? The middle button zooms in and out fine, just won't pan because of the script error.

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

sean.heasley — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:33:07 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

There is a solution in that thread if I'm not mistaken.

That user renmaed the mel file(artAttrSkinWeightCopy.mel) and then launched Maya.

Normally I wouldn't recommend this but it seems like you've tried a lot of other things I would normally recommend.

In this case, I'd recommend taking that file and moving it to a folder on your desktop then launch Maya and see if you can pan like normal.

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:01:24 GMT

That was one of the first things I tried, but then I get this error: // Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure "artAttrSkinWeightCopy".

Unless you have any other ideas, I'll just use the Track Tool for panning for now. Obviously there is something wrong on my end, since very few others have had this issue over the years.

Thanks for the suggestions, though!

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

sean.heasley — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:24:40 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Hmm ok.

What are the hardware specs of your machine?

Steps to find your pc specs can be found here!

Also, what GPU are you using and is the driver version the same as our certified hardware list?

You can find our certified hardware list here!

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:14:35 GMT

i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz

32 GBytes

GTX 970 with latest drivers

Thanks!

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

sean.heasley — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:30:14 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

We don't officially support the 970 so that could be part of the issue.

That said, the driver for similar cards we support is version 390.77. You could try uninstalling your current gpu driver and install version 390.77 which can be found here!

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:24:58 GMT

I got excited for a minute thinking that might work, but the problem persists after the driver update.

I'm going to update my GPU soon, so hopefully that will solve the issue. Thanks.

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 21:51:28 GMT

Turns out, I had an old program called XMouse running and I didn't even know. Once I disabled it, the problem was solved. Thanks for your help.

Re: Middle mouse button bringing up script error instead of panning

sean.heasley — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:10:56 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

Glad you're up and running! Thanks for explaining what you did to solve this issue and marking it as the solution!