Strange "viewport" blocking a layer.

[Alliat]

Hello,

I ran into this bug while trying to retouch this photo I snapped in the Bone Church of Kutna Hora (the one decorated with human remains).

My plan is to make that "hands off" sign on the right disappear by copying a section from the left, flipping it horizontally and pasting it. But when I attempt to move the selection to it's destination on the right, it disappears behind some viewport and stops me in my tracks. I've captured a video of the behaviour:

So here are the steps I'm taking:

1. Create a selection.
2. CMD+C then CMD+V to copy the selection and paste into another layer.
3. Press V to activate the Move Tool.
4. Right click the selection and choosing Invert Horizontally.
5. Attempt to move the selection to its destination, where it vanishes.

I can reproduce this behaviour with any photo I open.

Affinity Photo version 1.7.3, MacOS Catalina 10.15.1, MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with 16GB RAM.

[carl123]

Confirmed, also on Windows 8.1 and in latest 1.8 beta

[MEB]

Hi Alliat,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Thanks for reporting this. Issue logged to be looked at. If you de-select the selection after pasting it, it should work correctly. This also affects others transforms.