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I think this issue is similar to the issue I had and the other issue linked to in that post from 2015, where Matt - it seemed to me - agreed that the implementation was wrong.

The most difficult thing might be getting everything you want in the same - or very similar - style. In other words, you might find some chairs and tables that look great but it could be very difficult to get, for example, some beds that looked the same. There is probably a lot of free furniture clipart out there but if the artist hasn't done everything you want then you will have to mix artists and therefore styles. A quick search gave me these three examples (not free, check licences): * https://www.123rf.com/clipart-vector/floor_plan.html?sti=nyh5vjp878miociaqb|&mediapopup=60509790 * https://www.perfecttableplan.com/html/floor-plan-clip-art.html * https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/129426-floorplan-interior-icons Note that you only get a few items in each and they're all different styles. Even if you can get everything you want in the same style, there's also lighting and shadow to think about. The artist will have drawn lighting/shadow in the same orientation for all the artwork so if you start rotating things it will look messy with the light coming from all different angles.

I don't normally "do" political but, just for @peter

Lovely; thanks for clarifying that.

It's great news that the Publisher beta will be ready to download soon but I'm wondering if I need to sign up to be notified of its release. I already get the occasional email from "Affinity @ Serif.com" (spaces intentionally inserted) but don't know if the "newsletter" mentioned here https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ was something different. Do I need to register, or is the newsletter mentioned the email I already get? P.S. I didn't know where to start this thread so I put it here.

The comedian David was the one I was thinking of - just because he was good on "Dancing in the Dark: The End of Physics?" - but if the author David is good at narration then why not? Give the guy a go if he wants to try.

Amidst the international controversy - questions in Parliament, frequent mentions on Fox News, and a delightful article in Quilting Weekly - regarding the precise timing of the up-coming release of a certain piece of software, the BBC has announced that they will - some day soon - be airing a special episode of their flagship science documentary series. Expect glossy CGI, mildly sarcastic narration by David Mitchell, and something from either Jim Al-Khalili or Mark Miodownik (probably). Dum... dim, dum, de da da dum,,, P.S. This is just a silly bit of (attempted) humour. I'm happy to wait patiently.

@SrPx I'm glad it's not a mouse. That would have been too much. I can't use a keyboard properly for games, I still have to look down at the keyboard when I type. Now that you mention durability, I just happened to be listening to a documentary yesterday about Emeco chairs, the 1006 in particular. (Indeed a Rock and Roll lifestyle.) I can't believe the price of these things but they are manufactured to withstand a hit by a torpedo and one easily withstood the fall from the top of an eight-storey building, so that's pretty durable. https://www.emeco.net/products/chairs/emeco-1006-navy-chair-brushed-us-navy

High jinks! Nice.

@R C-R In relation to whether the plural is "mice" or "mouses", there's also "meeces" to consider, as in the phrase "I hate those meeces to pieces". @AffinityJules I think I opened a can of worms with this one. It's been interesting though. You never know what will come up next. How did we get from "what is a good mouse to use" to "how should you pronounce helicopter"? @SrPx Please tell me that the DeLUX thing isn't also a mouse. That would be a bit too over-the-top for me, but I think it would be fun watching someone trying it. @Fixx It seems like a lot of people who have replied actually prefer to use something that isn't fancy. Just something that gets the job done without all the extra bells and whistles. Luck, as you say, can play a huge part in getting something that's right for you personally. Maybe someone could open a "mouse lending library" so people can try before they buy.

It sounds a lot more complicated than it first seems. Maybe best to just let the OS do its thing. It would still be nice if the Affinity applications would show the path - or at least a generous amount of it - along with the filename though, just so the user can see where the file comes from.

Wow, so many buttons. I've seen keyboards with fewer keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard https://www.enablemart.com/bat-one-handed-keyboards-right-and-left-hands Looks very nice though.

If we can't use Maureen Lipman's pronunciation of a word as the definitive pronunciation then we might as well just rip it all up and go home. A classic advert from when adverts had real humour, and not just some bloke sitting on a plastic hippo telling us why he's sitting on a plastic hippo.

I like the idea of getting a sketch to start off with. Very useful for people like me who have very few artistic skills. We can just colour it in if we want to. A nice way to start learning the tools.

My vote is for a soft "G", like in topology (topolo-jee) and apologising (apolo-jy-zing). P.S. I say GIF (hard "G") rather than JIF, even though I know it should be JIF. In the UK we have a cleaning product called CIF (with an "S"-sounding "C") that used to be called JIF (as it looks). So asking someone if they've got their JIF ready for the presentation could get very (un)messy.

@R C-R I wouldn't have thought that the app would have to constantly poll the file system to see if the files still existed. Most modern OSes have a "watch" function and even if that wasn't used - for whatever reason - then it would only have to check when the user opened the "recent files" menu. Or at set intervals. Or even just at start-up (it's easy enough to have a "file doesn't exist dialog"). Read the list -> Does the file exist? Yes: Keep it in the list, No: Drop it from the list. (I have no idea how this would work with NAS/Cloud files.) As for the folder structure, the idea that I was trying to get over was that the path (without filename) would be in the first sub-menu and the filenames would be in the second sub-menu (no more sub-menus after that). The path by itself would be shown in the first sub-menu if there were more than one recent file in that folder. If there was only one recent file in that folder then path+filename would be shown in the first sub-menu. For example: Open Recent -> Documents\Work\WIP\CompanyA\Brochure June 2018\ Cover Page.afdesign Contents Page.afdesign Back Page.afdesign Documents\Work\WIP\CompanyB\Flyer July 2018\ Version 1.afdesign Version 2.afdesign Documents\Work\Archive\CompanyA\Poster August 2017\Version 1.afdesign Documents\Work\Archive\CompanyD\Flyer May 2016\Version 2.afdesign It would help people to find what they are looking for. Also, as above, when you have more than one document with the same name (e.g Version1, Version2) in different folders it would help to see what folder it was in before you opened it, so you can pick the right one. In AD, as it is now, there's no way to tell where the file is from. This path/filename arrangement is how I expect my "mini-DAM" to work when I eventually get round to finishing it - see attached (extremely early) demo - so I hope it's a workable solution. Back to the drawing board if not. For file organisation, I should really have a look at what's available in Windows these days. I'm using it like I did more than ten years ago and I'm sure things must have moved on a bit since then.

@photophart Thanks for adding that. I've edited my previous post so people know it might not actually be useful. @R C-R I never knew that was a restriction at the OS-level for Macs; it's a nice bit of info'. However, if the application keeps a list of recent files for itself then surely it can make that list as long - or short - as it wants, just ignoring the OS-specific recent files list? It's just a list of strings after all. I agree that having more than 15 in the main File menu can make the menu look horrible but, as Affinity does, if the list is in a sub-menu then more than 15 could be better accommodated. Maybe the list could be organised by folder, as in my very-crudely-drawn example, or maybe not, I've not thought about it very much. But, as you say, there are probably better methods of organising things. I wonder if anyone is willing to share some good methods that people can learn from.

@R C-R It's a bit of an archaic expression that isn't used very often these days. As mentioned in the link given by alfred, it comes from way back when people got new weapons. The would get, for example, a new sword from the blacksmith and swing it about a bit to see how it felt in their hands. It might feel okay but they wouldn't know how it actually performed until they took it into battle: literally "using it in anger" against an enemy. Basically it now just means: "using it in the circumstances it was designed for".

It's a shame you don't have much of a good view normally either. Nice that you have somewhere you can go to get a good view though. We have lots of countryside nearby but there is usually a main road within a few miles and they are always lit all night. Anyway, I like the photos.

Here are some examples of vertical mice: https://www.posturite.co.uk/ergonomic-mice/vertical-mice.html I think I would have to use one for a couple of weeks before I knew if I could use one "properly". In case anyone is interested, I went for the G402 in the end. Some early notes: * No in-box software or manual, both have to be downloaded. The mouse can be used without the software but you can't configure it without it. * Software is a bit weird. The UI is strange and doesn't explain most of the jargon. It's nice-looking and funky but if you don't know what a "fusion engine", "heat map" or various other things are then you have to go looking for explanations elsewhere. * The clicking sound isn't very loud, certainly not as loud as the mouse it replaced. * Pressing the scroll-wheel and dragging (straight out of the box) does the same thing in AD as keeping SPACE pressed down and dragging, so that's useful. * You can assign different profiles for different applications - automatically switched - but you need to know where the EXE for each application is. I've configured one button for the AD "Move Tool" and one for CTRL+0 "Zoom all" and they're quite handy so I'll keep playing around. * The DPI switching works well but I've yet to use it in anger. All-in-all, it looks like it could be a good mouse for AD use but, as with most things, time will tell.

You're welcome. I haven't tried using the procedure myself so I don't know how well, or if, it works. As for AD/AP, allowing user to set their preferred number - up to a reasonable value (whatever I mean by reasonable) - shouldn't be too difficult to implement considering what the rest of the software can do. It's probably just a constant somewhere. Or maybe it's a maximum set by whatever APIs or whatever the developers are using. I don't know, but 10 seems to be a small number for people busy with lots of files.

@gdenby Ah. I have a vague memory of cities having set transport areas and the protagonist saying something about having to know which speed and direction to walk in order to not bump into other people but that could just be my bad memory (it's been a while since I read it). I often find that threads that go off on tangents can be the most interesting kind. (There are already more posts in this thread that are not about the original artwork than are.) P.S. There are some forum frameworks that allow users to create a parallel off-topic thread so that the original thread doesn't get "polluted". Maybe this forum will go down that route someday?

This hack may not work; see below for details. And here's a hack to increase the size of the jump list on Windows 10 which may, or may not, work (depending on which Windows 10 version you have): https://superuser.com/questions/1035179/how-do-i-increase-the-number-of-items-on-a-jump-list-in-windows-10

From what I remember, "The Stars my Destination" had a bit of an unusual take on matter transporters, something about timing and direction of travel when entering the "transporter pad" (whatever it was called). An interesting book but it doesn't half go in some weird directions at times. Alfred Bester is also the name of the "baddie" Psi-Cop played by Walter Koenig in Babylon 5. (Just if anyone is interested.)

A simple vertical gradient fill on the text hasn't been mentioned yet. Just another way of doing it (depending on exactly what effect you want).