Jowday Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 For UX consideration. I am an organized style fanatic and I rarely need access to manual tweaks in the right click menu. I would however love a 'Edit style' option right from this menu. I know it is also available in the text styles studio - but this is simply where I prefer to access it. I would certainly use it more than 'Insert filler text' that looks like a ... filler. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver.
walt.farrell Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 Would that be: Edit Character Style, or Edit Paragraph Style? What happens if your selected text has both applied, or a Paragraph Text Style and several Character Text Styles? Or no styles assigned at all? Though I suppose in that case it could create a new one, but we already have that function available on the Character and Paragraph Style pulldowns in the Context Toolbar, which both offer "New Style". And the Context Toolbar also has the buttons that invoke the Character panel and Paragraph panel, which each also offer the "New Style" options, so that situation may be well covered already. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Jowday Posted December 13, 2019 Author Posted December 13, 2019 10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Would that be: Edit Character Style, or Edit Paragraph Style? What happens if your selected text has both applied, or a Paragraph Text Style and several Character Text Styles? Or no styles assigned at all? Though I suppose in that case it could create a new one, but we already have that function available on the Character and Paragraph Style pulldowns in the Context Toolbar, which both offer "New Style". And the Context Toolbar also has the buttons that invoke the Character panel and Paragraph panel, which each also offer the "New Style" options, so that situation may be well covered already. Edit whatever style that is selected automatically in the text style studio when the cursor is placed in a paragraph I guess - if a style is applied to the text below the pointer / cursor. Otherwise the option can be ghosted. But yes point taken hm... it gets complicated when c + p styles are mixed etc. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver.
walt.farrell Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 Thanks for that clarification. And yes, it's complicated. When you position the cursor, and manually open the Text Styles studio, you then get to choose what to do. You can see a highlighted paragraph style, and a highlighted character style, and the next action is up to you: you click on one of them if you want to edit it. But a right-click menu would need entries for both edit character and edit paragraph style, I think. Interestingly, if you select a string of text that has multiple character text styles applied to it, the Text Styles Box says "No Style" for the character style. It may do something similar if you select two paragraphs with different paragraph styles. So the right-click menu would also need to gray-out the editing choices in that case. Jowday 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Jowday Posted December 14, 2019 Author Posted December 14, 2019 Thx @walt.farrell It is never a good idea to add complexity to the user interface of course - but I would prefer options related to styles, structure and a controlled layout rather than manual tweaks that I use rarely. They are needed too but I avoid them where I can. Have a nice weekend walt.farrell 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver.
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