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Any of the bugs related to the Mac versions? But regardless, I think it would be useful for users if this primary/secondary info & how it is displayed was documented in the help somewhere. EDIT: I also note that in the Mac US English help page for the V2 retail version of AD (https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html) there is no disclosure triangle nor the burger menu with the "Deactivate This Device..." option shown in the screenshot.

OK, but can you think of any reason why it is of any importance for users to see this in the Account window or know about? It won't even be the same if one starts one app first & then at a later time starts another one first.

Then why do we users even need to see it? The text string can't be copied to the clipboard so it could be included in a PM or sent to Serif in any other way than in a screenshot. And why is it MIA in the betas? Can you list any of these functions that work differently depending on which one I opened first? I can't think of anything like that for the Mac versions so maybe this just applies to Windows?

OK I guess, but at least to me "primary" & "secondary" don't tell me anything useful I need to know ... or why there isn't a tertiary "Z" suffix for a third one I have opened if there actually is a good reason I might need to know the order in which I started the apps. Then there is still the issue about what if anything is useful or important to users about the long ID number or why it doesn't show in the beta & why there is no straightforward plain language info about which store source each app came from. That's the only thing I can think of that actually would be useful to display there.

I'm not sure what you mean by all document folders getting collapsed. By "all" do you mean for all the other items like Favorites, Tags, etc. or something else?

To be clear(er), for me the Retail release shows/hides the licensing info (my name & email address) below the "This application licensed to:" line, but in the beta that licensing info appears above it, to the right of the app logo, so it has no effect, unlike with the retail version. Also, when toggled to 'show' in the retail version I get the long (& useless to me) ID: number string; while in the beta there is no long ID string. Additionally, in both versions the tooltip "Hide license and device information" only appears when it is open. It shows nothing when it is closed. Should it not show "Show license and device information" when closed & only displaying "My add-ons"? Basically, the beta version info is a confused & nearly useless mess, at least to me.

As I understand it there can be no Mac "Y" secondary versions installed since that only applies to the two Windows version types. If so, why even include the "X" for the Mac ones? Regardless, since apparently the long ID numbers do not appear for users surely there is plenty of room for plain language store info like by replacing "ID:" with "Store:" followed by "Mac," "Affinity" or "Windows." That could sometimes be useful for troubleshooting since if we needed to ask users about which store their app came from, we could tell them to look there.

It isn't clear what you mean. Are you talking about a mockup of a button for a web page that does something when clicked on or what?

Can you not also hide any folders it shows so you only see the iCloud name but not any items in it, as you can do with Favorites, Locations, & Tags?

I do not see anything like the nnnnn number on my Mac for the V2 betas, just this: Regardless, why make showing where you got the application from so complicated? Why not just a part of the ID: line that says in plain language which store each build came from. Also, does the "primary" & "secondary" thing have any relevance for Mac users?

Same for me. I'm also unsure about what @Tr48 meant when he said above that in the first post he covered all the points @NotMyFault mentioned, but maybe that's just me.

I was not suggesting creating a new F&S topic, just if desired posting to one (or more) of the existing ones.

I do not know if it makes any difference but you have not answered @walt.farrell's query about when the app closes.

I think you are talking about a feature request, yes? If so, you should be posting in the Feedback & Suggestions forum, not here in the Questions forum.

AFAIK, there is no way to prevent iCloud from showing showing up as a possible save location. This is true not just for the Affinity apps but also Apple ones like TextEdit, so I do not think there is anything Serif/Canva can do to change that. IOW, it is an OS level feature, not an app level one. What you can do is to hide iCloud folders from showing up in the sidebar -- just hover the pointer over the right side of the word "iCloud" & "Hide" should appear, so clicking that will hide the folders but not the iCloud location itself.

FWIW, on Macs when the Node Tool is positioned over a node's control handle the status bar (a.k.a. the hint bar) will show "Drag+⌃ to preserve handle ratios" as one of the options. (⌃ means the Control key on Macs.) So this does not necessarily keep the lengths equal if they are not equal to begin with, but it is still a useful option. The Control key can also be used to move a node without moving the end point of its control handle(s), so similarly when the Node Tool is positioned over a node, the Status bar will show "Drag+⌃ to move just nodes." There are additional options that use the Control key like removing nodes from a selection, & they also display Status bar hints. I mention this mostly just to emphasize how useful the status bar can be & its dynamic nature.

Or, depending on what you want the shape to look like, maybe the Pie or Crescent tool with a suitably thin cross section. Those shapes can be edited at any time so you are not locked into one shape.

There are many different kinds of mathematically "perfect" curves, so I still do not know exactly what it is you are trying to do. (Just search the web on "perfect curve" to see what I mean.) But if say you want to bend a 2 node initially straight curve so that its two nodes have the same angle, try experimenting with the Node tool & the Shift key -- no need to click anywhere on the curve just drag diagonally anywhere along its length with the Shift key held down & you should see how that works. And of course, there are the various quick shape tools you can use, plus many other ways to create curves.

So there is definitely at least one oddity here, that being the difference between the Mac & Windows display. There is also the odd disclosure thing.

It sounds like you are describing the application's user interface (UI for short). This is the way the Affinity apps normally open (so that you have access to the tools, panels, & menus so you can use them to modify the document). If you want to hide all of that for some reason, just press the Tab key on your keyboard. It is a toggle so pressing it repeatedly with show & hide the UI. You can also find this command at the bottom of the View menu. OTOH, if you want to export the photo to another format like JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or whatever to get rid of the Affinity UI, you can do that via File > Export or in AD or AP via the Export persona.

It is indeed a very, very bad thing to do because the .plist key/value structure can be very complex so it is easy to screw things up unless you know exactly what each key/value pair is for, the appropriate syntax, etc.. Beyond that, .plist files should only be accessed with an appropriate tool, like Terminal via the defaults tool or with Xcode (like Apple suggests) & only when the process or app the .plist is for is not running. Above all, don't open these files with a simple text editor unless you are absolutely sure it can parse & display these files correctly, which I am guessing whatever unidentified text editor @jcreative-design used cannot do. Basically, just don't mess with these files unless you know exactly what you are doing and you have a very good reason to modify them.

I suggest reading https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/historyPanel.html to find out more about what it can do.

And presumably it would not be limited to the Affinity apps but work with other apps as well, like it does with Macs.

Sure, but there is no good reason I can think of for there being two versions of this file in the same directory. I suspect this is the result of something weird @jcreative-design did while mucking about in the file system. Anyway, it seems to have nothing to do with ~lock~ files.

Not if the line isn't perpendicular to the project it won't. ??? The line can be at any angle. Try it: just draw a straight line at any arbitrary angle & then drag out a guide from the ruler until it snaps to the middle of the line. I'm not sure what you mean by "nice curve" but you can use the Node tool to bend a straight line into a curved shape. No need to use assets or otherwise over-complicate this!