Kobold

As soon as they will come with a sub model, I will be out and search for alternatives! 100% sure! 🙂 As simple as that! "planned at this time" says it all about the future plans!

But still I can not understand why the visibility of the tool icons, within an app that is made for productivity, a work horse for many users, ..... is some kind of limited by such "stupid" and not logical decisions, making these icons almost invisible, and so hard to see, if an option is switched on or off. Yes, this is stupid, cause it is a decision that is making app harder to use, often you have to double check, etc. etc. ..... If I build a tool for users, I make this tool as easy to use, as possible. Period! Here this is just not the case. Why not giving us an option for settings for all the icons? That should be way easy to be done. So every user can make his own settings, may be choose own colors .... not to be fancy, but to get visibility ... what should be normal and standard in such an app!

Yes, please give us a button for this. This happens so easily and so fast, and you may not see it in the first moment. I had different dimensions, and had no idea why, then my shape was rotated ............ then I found out what was happening.

When my mouse is on a size button in transform window, and I accidently hit the scroll wheel, the number changes. As I often work with scroll wheel it happens often while working, and to me this is pretty strange. How can I disable this function, so scroll wheel action does not affect the values in transform window?

Thanks man!

Hi Garry ...... document setting is set to mm, and show lines in points is not activated. Pencil lines width is shown in mm, only vector brush remains with px.

Hi, vector brush thickness is shown in px, but I always work in mm only. (only text size is pt) Is there a way to get a mm setting for this thickness as a standard unit? I can type a value plus mm behind that, but that´s just too much to do that every time. Would be nice if there would be a solution for that, so I could change that to mm. Thanks.

Shame on me .......... ha ha ......... I usually open up Affinity Designer via Spotlight, ..... just enter Aff and get the results. And usually I get the beta, the normal version at first places, so did so, and clicked the non beta version. Good you replied, just checked the version, ......... 1.10.6 ........ had the Designer 1 version, where the problem was present like in the previous 2 version. Now checked the updated 2 version, buttons are working fine now. Sorry for the confusion!

Hi, what I do not understand: Today there was an update on App Store ........ but the button problem ist not fixed on this update. So we have to wait for a fix "may be" in the next update. Why was the fix not included in this update, although the beta has the fix since some weeks now?

Yeehaw! Never thought I would see this alive! Two sides: On the one side ....... a bit shame on you, cause such things have to work properly in a prof. app! On the other side, thanks, that it´s finally fixed now. Really, I been so often frustrated about this, thought my mouse is working wrong, my Mini is doing wrong, and what ever ....... Good it is now finally nice working! Thanks!

How can we get info about beta update?

Just checked that on my Macbook Air M1, and got the same problems here. Even bigger problems, as the contour button is only showing reactions on two thirds of its shape. No matter what display settings I choose, it´s the same problem. So is this an apple problem, or an Affinity problem that could be solved by Affinity? This is just a pretty annoying thing, as in all my work with mainly Affinity Designer I been clicking thousands of times with no action happening over the time. I just checked AD1 and it´s the same problem. I wonder why I did not find out earlier, that it´s a button shape problem, not a problem of the whole button not responding. So I guess there is plenty much mac users that for sure have the same problem, and not knowing, why this "damned button" is not responding to their clicks. It´s not the button, it is just not hit the right place inside the button. It would be amazing if you could fix this big problem!

If you are working on your computer, and you know, the next thing you have to do is get the graphic done for customer x, let´s say while just writing mails, it´s not even a second to start the keyboard shortcut so AD2 can launch in the background while still writing mails. That´s by far the fastest and easiest way, to launch an app. I also want to keep my "hidden" dock clean, so this is the best and fastest launch option to me. I got most of my recurring actions done by Keyboard Maestro or Better Touch Tool commands, which make my working life so much easier.

I an using a LG 27UL550-W 4k display.

I guess apple did a good job about the use of the 5k display, but may be did not good job when it's about other displays, not by apple. Mouse making 2 pixel steps on 4k display with such called standard setting in display prefs, that's a no go, and lacks precision when it's about graphics, construction or also gaming when aiming.

Almost a quarter or third of the left side does not react. In the past I often had to click, until I got reaction, and thought it is a bug about the whole button, that just was not working sometimes. But now I know it is the area of the button, that does not work over whole shape of the button.

I think the problem is bigger than I thought. I often have problems, getting a reaction when clicking in the options button. But did not investigate that much, until now. See new video, that is really bad, ...... I am just working on some graphics, and it is not so nice, not knowing where to click, to get the button react ....... see video: Bildschirmaufnahme 2023-08-14 um 17.32.35.mov

Left the shortcut as it was, only added a little pause between shortcut click and launching app, now it is fine. But I increased the already long launching time further ...... 🙂

With 4k settings that seems to work well. After I switched back to standard settings, it is now working fine, sure different to my video I posted. Strange things happening .......

Got a 4k display, and set to standard in system preferences, which is scaled, I know about that. I can give it a try with 4k settings ........

In Finder I guess this has to do with apples scaling options, as I am working on a 4k sreen, but display is set to standard which is scaled. I can see mouse cursor is making 2 pixel jumps when I zoom the screen and watch mouse action. This is a known issue with apple users working with larger displays as far as I know.

In the mac finder, when I do same actions with the cursor, like clicking on the window buttons, to make changes, it seems also not working perfect, as I thought it should. May be other Mac users can give this a try, and post here if it´s the same on their maschines.

ha ha ........... that´s been the right hint, thanks very much. I just made that new shortcut some weeks ago, and since that time been wondering. Now with other shortcut without control button it´s just fine! Been the fastest solved problem ever! 🙂

Oh, that´s a good hint, as I use a keyboard maestro keyboard shortcut that includes the control button. I´ll check and report ............

I was wondering why sometimes I hit the contour button nothing happens, and then it works just nice. Found out that the lower section of the black contour button, or the fill button (both the same) do not react. When working fast it often happens, that I just click the lower section, with no reaction. Also I guess the whole button should be click sensitive, if I am not wrong. See video. Bildschirmaufnahme 2023-08-13 um 13.27.55.mov