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Hello, there. I have a few question about History panel. These questions are meant to inform me whether this History feature can help me make a time-lapse video of me drawing or not: Does enabling "Save History with document" feature in File menu cause the app to save all history from the moment it's enabled up to the latest editing? Or does it gradually forgets the earliest edit if it reaches a certain threshold? Does enabling "Save History with document" cause the file size to get bigger as I continue editing? Is the History data often as small as 5MB, or does it get as heavy as 100MB after a couple of hours of editing? Is using History panel for time-lapse video a good idea? Or do you have another way to make time-lapse video in Affinity software? Thank you! 😀

Changing a gradient type when using the Fill Tool adds huge amounts of the same entry, "Set fill type", to be added to the History panel. This is to the point that it will push everything else away, leaving only these repeated entries in the History panel, essentially denying you any way to undo your work. Steps to reproduce: Create or select an object With the Fill Tool drag across the object to create a simple gradient On the context bar at the bottom, scroll to another fill type, like conical Watch as the History panel get absolutely overwhelmed with the same entry over and over I've actually manage to crash the app doing this, but it doesn't happen always See the attached video for a visual guide on how to trigger this issue. Workaround while this bug isn't fixed: With your object selected, DO NOT trigger the fill type popup by tap the fill type name Instead tap the arrows to the left and right of the fill type name Each tap on these arrows will only had one entry to the History panel If you accidentally trigger the fill type popup, either tap away to close it or directly tap once on another fill type, NEVER SCROLL THROUGH THE LIST Directly tapping another fill type on the popup still adds two duplicate entries to the History panel, but that's still better than flooding it and loosing your undo ability Thanks! RPReplay_Final1592384177.mp4

A really cool feature for Affinity Photo (APh) would be to save the history as a macro

Using the history panel can be quite dangerous. If you select a step in your history and click in your document, all your future steps are lost (because you made a new selection, starting from the step you selected in the history). There is no way of getting them back as any undo action will start from the step you selected going backwards. I think the history panel should have it's own undo function. Moreover, but this may be regarded as a feature request: what I felt I should be able to do, is to remove a step, for instance the deletion of an object that I want to get back.