Rubber band mode

When creating a path with the pen tool in Photoshop you can enable Rubber Band Mode. This helps me to see where the path will lie before I click to create my next control point. Is there a similar mode in Illustrator?

Well, the rubber band option in Photoshop and the space bar feature in Illustrator are two different useful things and it would be best if both are available in both programs.
The Rubber band path preview allows you to see when moving the mouse if the line between two points will touch a third point in the middle so you just need a mouse move and one click to make a precise path while with Illustrator you need additional actions - after clicking, you have to also hold the mouse, press the space bar, and reposition the point. For example, if you have to create something like a polygon with many sides that encompasses and touches the border of a circular shape inside of it, with the rubber band option you will be at least twice as fast.
However the space bar feature in Illustrator will have greater advantage with shapes with curved lines, because the curve lines require creating and dragging handles of the anchor points, this changes where the path passes, and at this point repositioning it with the space bar becomes very helpful but this is not available in Photoshop where creating this kind of shapes will take longer.
Alternatively to the space bar feature, Photoshop can move the position of a point while the path is still being drawn with arrows or Shift + arrows key on the keyboard but for greater adjustments the space bar feature in Illustrator will be much faster.
However I also wish Illustrator, like Photoshop is able to use the arrows keys for finer adjustments of anchor points while drawing the path. In Illustrator if you use the arrow keys, this will complete the path.

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This seems frankly, to be a joint responsibility between Apple and Adobe. Apple have forced developers like Adobe to re-write their interfaces for "Cocoa" - the new OS framework. (Still seemingly incomplete with holes and efficiency issues). There are also graphical problems in Cocoa, like this one that is to do with insufficient OS "blending modes" being included in Cocoa.
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I am trying to make the black square do the rubber band
effect while the image pans left to right with mouse movement
Each code works seperatly but when i put them together they
do not work
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www.jetsetbrasil.com/imagepan_final.fla
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R Neil Haugen wrote:
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