Gnasher42

I should also say a big thank you to MEB for helping with this issue! Sorry - bit busy in the lead up to the holiday season.....

I thought I would follow up with where I have got to with this issue, perhaps to help anyone who has similar issues. Following up from MEB's suggestion that there is a double click happening hone there should only be a single click, I further investigated the hardware. Swapping back to an Apple Magic Mouse and the Wacom tablet and disabling the 3Dconnexion mouse at least partially resolved the issue. Affinity Designer was working fine but I was still having problems with other applications with missed mouse clicks. Web searches on the 3DConnexion mouse suggests that there have been problems with this issue in the past. I contacted 3Dconnexion and they directed me to upgrade the firmware in the mouse - which can ONLY be done using a Windows computer. I am a Mac user but, fortunately (or unfortunately) I also use a windows installation on the Mac and completed the upgrade that way. This has resolved many of the issues with AD and with other software but I was still getting weird random missed clicks and occasional double clicks when there should not be. Final result: disconnect 3Dconnexion mouse and uninstall driver software. Result: Working Affinity and 3D software (Fusion 360) and no more problems. I have found that a combination of Apple Trackpad and Magic Mouse works fine with my 3D software and my very old Wacom Intuos 4 tablet plays very nicely indeed with Affinity software!

I am new to Affinity Designer and there are a couple of things which I am really struggling with. The first is clicking on items in the layers palette sometimes automatically triggers a zoom to the object. I really want to disable this. I am editing variations of an item on a single page so I am constantly zooming out to check that I have selected the correct object. I cannot find a way to switch this off - is there a way to do this please? My second issue is a bit more serious and I cannot determine if this is Affinity issue or if it is caused by software conflicts. the issue I am experiencing is that clicking on the object selector arrow on the top left of the screen (black arrow) does not always seem to work. I seem to have to click on it several times before it selects. This also happens with other menu items but to a lesser extent. I do not have this issue with other software on my machine, but I winder if it is a conflict caused by other software. I am on a Mac running the latest version of Catalina, and I am also running Wacom Intuos 4 tablet (with the latest driver) AND a 3DConnexion Cadmouse again with the latest driver. All are running on Bluetooth. I create artwork in a vector package like AD (previously Adobe Illustrator) and then use 3D software (Fusion 360) to convert to 3D and machine the work in 3 dimensions. If anyone has any suggestions/experience of this I would be really grateful.