[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

AFAIK, Serif apps have always behaved like this. It's a consequence of long-clicking to start a drag. When you press the mouse button over an object, we have to decide whether that's a click or a drag. Many people move the mouse slightly while clicking, so we have to ignore small mouse movements. But this makes it hard to deliberately drag an object by 1 pixel for instance, so we assume that when the button is held down then you really do want to drag, and then we stop ignoring small mouse movements. The object is now in "drag mode", so if you're holding Ctrl you get a Ctrl-drag, duplicating the object. 

 

Yes that is perfectly understandable, thanks.

 

This could be solved however:

 

Did mouse move happen after all?

No?

Don't duplicate after mouse release.

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Please could you clarify exactly what's still happening?

The problem we think we've fixed is the one I quoted above: that short clicks could be interpreted as long clicks when the system was under load. 

The behaviour of object duplication on long click is by design. 

Yeah i meant only the duplication thing. Which is still annoying i don't understand why is this by design, there is absolutely no reason for it and i haven't seen any program behave like this.

(Not that it would mean that it couldn't be a good feature, but it's just not IMHO.)

The duplication time is still very very short, at least it should reach into the seconds territory.

 

OK thanks anyway, i will test it under load later.

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Have you tested this in.21, a second build issued today?

 

Sorry i meant .21, got confused by the updates. So yes.

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

.20 and it still happening on 2 different computers. (With Both CTRL, and ALT)

[1.5.0.21 Bugs]

Yeah, and still nothing snapping to it. :)

[Show floating panels when Toggle UI is off.]

It would be great if the panels that are not docked could be shown after you pressed TAB to Toggle UI.

For example i set swatches, stroke, characters, and paragraphs toggle to F1-F4 keys, and i could then work with great efficiency just toggling the panels i need, when i need them, all while im working in fullscreen. 

 

Thanks

 

 

[Affinity Designer Public Beta - 1.5.0.21 (Windows)]

Crashes on startup sometimes, and opening old or new document with d3dcompiler missing message

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Nice!

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Pasting FX doesn't keep scale]

Yeah it should keep the settings, as that is the reason you paste the style in the first place.

And its definitely a bug, because if you make a copy of an object, and THEN resize it, and apply the same FX, it will keep the settings as it should work.

[1.5.0.18 Cannot unselect keep aspect ratio in Transform panel]

It's a single click for me?

 

Edit:

I think i get your problem:

 

The locked icon is always there if you hover with mouse

It's not double click, so when you click it twice you always set it back where it was.

 

And yeah, the graphic is misleading, i think it should reflect the current state.

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Contstraint groups not working on artboards.]

I had this sorta reported a few days ago, but now i can replicate it constantly.

Just create anything on an artboard and change some constraints property, then group.

 

It only happens when there is an artboard in the project.

If i move the objects out of the artboard, grouping works fine.

 

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Selecting objects with marquee selection doesn't display context toolbar]

Selecting objects with marquee selection doesn't display context toolbar

If i add them to selection with shift or ctrl+clicking, it works.

 

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Pasting FX doesn't keep scale]

Paste Style and Paste FX change the scale of the effects applied depending on the size of the target.

 

Strange exception:

If you make a copy of the source object, no matter how you scale it, the effect will be applied correctly.

 

 

[[1.5.0.18] Copying from artboard offscreen -> object doesnt redraw]

Create 2 artboards

Create object on artboard1,

Select it,

Pan to artboard2 (sholud be far enough to scroll out of view a bit)

Press Ctrl+c, and Ctrl+v

New object has no home :(

Until you move it a bit

 

 

 

 

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Snapping to Guides stops working on copied artboards]

Thanks!

 

I believe ruler guides are owned by an artboard that you drag them onto which would make this by design. However, in this case, if you drag a new guide to the copied artboard objects will not snap - this is the bug (I think).

 

 

Im not dragging new guides on copied artboards, Im just copying an artboard that already had rulers on it. Then the duplicated artboard's rulers won't snap.

(not all the time, but after a few copies they completely stop working)

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Recorded a gif, you can see the mouse click length of the circle around the cursor

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Snapping to Guides stops working on copied artboards]

Update:

Cant even drag new rulers anymore on artboard3

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Snapping to Guides stops working on copied artboards]

Create artboard

Drag a few guides

snapping works

copy artboard (sometimes on the second copy)

Won't snap to guides anymore, just on the original artboard.

 

 

BUG-guide snapping.afdesign

 

[BUG [1.5.0.18] Global colour not changeable with Colour panel]

Global colour not changeable with Colour panel

• Create a document palette

• add a global colour

• colour an object with it

• in the Color panel menu, set to sliders

• try to recolour the object

• The slider panel closes as soon you try to interact

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

I can attach, but it's as simple as creating a new document, creating any object, and holding ctrl+click on it.

Works every time on 2 different computers, Don't have to group anything.

If it's already selected, works with ALT+click too.

 

Click-bug.afdesign

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Thing is, if the project is a little more complex, it literally takes 0ms for the object to duplicate.

I merely Ctrl+click on the object, not even holding down the mouse, and it duplicates already.

 

there is a bit of a loading inbetween where it calculates what i clicked, and i think it thinks i was holding down the button the whole time

 

 

I have just installed a clean beta on a different computer, and the problem is still there.

 

I just create a rectangle

hold CTRL

click on rectangle for ~250ms (not moving mouse)

release mouse button

 

you don't even have to release Ctrl, the duplicated rectangle appears in the layers

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

It duplicates objects even if its not in a group.

 

Here is my Beta folder

Beta.zip

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Resetting didn't solve this for me

[Holding CTRL+click on an object duplicates it]

Holding CTRL+click on an object without moving the mouse duplicates it.

This is uncalled for, and makes excess mess, creating stacked copies a LOT of times.

 

Especially in a complex project, when it takes a sec for the program to respond to my selection,

i want to just ctrl+click an object to select inside group, and bang, i duplicated it like 3 times already.

 

In my opinion, there are a lot of VERY basic interaction bugs that should be sorted out in Highest Priority.

 

The Ctrl+drag duplication, and then undoing only undos the dragging???

I mean WTF.... :D

 

 

[BUG 1.5.0.17 Grouping constrained objects disappear sometimes]

Ok, i now can replicate it every time:

 

Create Artboard,

Create a few objects

Change a constraint option on any of the objects

Drag and make a copy of the artboard

Group the objects on the new artboard

The whole Constraint group will jump out of the artboard the same offset as you dragged the artboard away.