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chessboard reacted to a post in a topic: Switching states destroys object styles (appearance) in all Affinity apps
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When switching states with "Effects changes" turned on (which is the default state), this destorys the object styles (appearance) of all objects in the document (on all artboards and all spreads). This can be reproduced in all Affintiy apps. Here the state before switching to state "only 1 and 3": Here after switching to the new state. In the Layer studio you can see that all styles have been removed. Just stroke and fill attributes are left.
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Layers Panel Left Margin
chessboard replied to Ammar's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
@Pšenda Yes, this is what I thought of. -
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Layers Panel Left Margin
chessboard replied to Ammar's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
I would like to bring this up again. Especially on Hires-Screens the indentation is much to small. A larger indent would be much better for better readability. An option to set the width of the indent would be best. And more colours could help to here. For example, according to the selected layer the vertical bars could also be colored. -
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garrettm30 reacted to a post in a topic: Scripting
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Me: ChatGPT: You can get any answer out of ChatGPT if you're asking for it. As is says at point 3: "I don’t have personal experiences or subjective consciousness."
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chessboard reacted to a post in a topic: Scripting
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@CM0 I really doubt that this would work. But we will see. Would be nice if you could give some links to see how they did this.
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I assume that chatGPT generates Blender scripts quite well because there are many references on the web that chatgpt has "learned" from, due to the open source nature of Blender and therefore a large number of users who know how to script and share their scripts on the web. Similar knowledge cannot be expected for affintiy scripts, as chatGPT does not learn to script. It does not "know" anything about scripting logic and scripting languages, nor does it understand how to read API documentation and combine this information with knowledge of the rules of a particular scripting language. It simply can't think. Instead, it simply collects scripts that others with knowledge of the scripting language have already written and can combine them into new scripts. This works all the better the more often the tasks set have already been solved and published on the web. If you ask chatGPT to create a script for a very specific and unique purpose, it is more likely to fail. Scripting in Affinity will be so new that chatGPT will not immediately find enough scripting input. If scripting in Affinity becomes popular, the later versions of chatGPT will probably also be able to generate scripts for the Affinty applications. It is not a question of which scripting language is used. There just needs to be enough sample material available.
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garrettm30 reacted to a post in a topic: Scripting
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Did you read the line: Both Jon and Tim are part of the scripting development team, not the publisher development team. They develop the scripting feature for all three applications: Designer, Photo and Publisher. I find it quite understandable that they are specialists in their field and not for photographic, design, illustration and publishing software issues.
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Locking layer contents
chessboard replied to Pšenda's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
It's a bit like locking the door with locks and chains and leaving the window next to it right open. Now you can't get into the house throught the door anymore - never! The window, ...um, well... 🙃 -
shinichiro reacted to a post in a topic: Replace Symbol functionality
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@Mark Daniel Thanks, that's cool! Would you mind to explain, how you did this? How did you get the three instances of the symbol to have different fill colours, and what do these dotted orange lines in the layers panel mean? For now I thougt all instances of a symbol are absolutely binded to the same appearance and that you can change the appearance only for all of them at once. But it seems that you can change the fill colour for example and keep the rest of the instance in sync with the symbol definition. Or am I wrong here?
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Talkrabb reacted to a post in a topic: Document Window Arrange
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Many good suggestions have already been made. For me, it would be nice if scripts were generally able to replicate (automate) workflows that I do "by hand" but have to repeat multiple times (20, 40, 60 or more times depending on the project). Therefore, it would be nice if scripting was able to control every part of the applications, such as making selections, arranging layers, applying filters, creating, duplicating, moving and deleting objects, opening and saving documents, switching between open documents, applying or changing object styles and so on. It would also be very helpful if scripts allowed the user to make adjustments while the script is running. For example, you could open the dialog for a filter and let the user make adjustments, and then after pressing "OK", continue the script taking into account the user's input. Or, even simpler, let the user select files using the open or save dialog. It would be even nicer to be able to create custom dialogs for scripts.
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2.1 GM Build (2.1.0.1799)
chessboard replied to Ash's topic in [ARCHIVE] 2.3, 2.2 & 2.1 Features and Improvements
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For me, as a user of Affinity applications, scripting is much more important than plug-ins. Scripting means that I am able to define a specific task myself that the software performs on its own (for example, batch processing a batch of graphic designs). Extending the software with plug-ins may be nice and even effective in some cases. But in my experience, plug-ins in Photoshop or Illustrator are far less important to my daily work than the ability to automate tasks by actions and scripting (in fact I really don't use the plug-ins I once installed at all). Often, plug-ins just provide a streamlined workflow or automate tasks (just what scripting is made for) rather than truly extending the software with new functions. Or on the other hand they are almost stand-alone software packages that would work better as separate applications (what they exactly do in some cases). Therefore from a users view, if we can't get a sophisticated macro or actions system in all the Affinity apps (like in Photoshop), scripting is all the more important. Way more important than plug-ins.
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