Dragging the canvas view

Hi there,
I know with J3D that you can drag invidual objects around, but i was wondering if there was a way to drag the whole scene around, kind of like the implementation of google maps? (http://maps.google.com/)
Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial that shows this method, should it actually exist?
Thanks for your time :)
beccy

I googled the "pick whole branchgroup" and nothing came up. Is the mouse behaviour "Mouse Translate" the thing I want to add in? Or is it more like I should be searching for rotating the viewing platform with the mouse? If anyone has any ideas or example code anywhere that would be great,
Thanks again for your time,
beccy

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