lmartins Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Just starting out with Affinity and im loving it. One things bothers me though, can't find a way to quickly click to drag multiple objects. Any tips please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted September 11, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 11, 2014 You can select multiple objects with the Move tool, then drag them as one - the hint line gives this and other helpful information. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmartins Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 That is the expected behaviour but for some reason in some circumstances it doesn't work that way, not sure why. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted September 11, 2014 Staff Share Posted September 11, 2014 By default it will only select items in your current layer. You can change this by selecting the 'Edit all layers' button on the bottom of the layer panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmartins Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Weird. I was trying on a set of objects that were part of the same layer, didn't work consistently. With that option enabled I haven't had any issues so far though. Thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 You can select multiple objects with the Move tool, then drag them as one - the hint line gives this and other helpful information. Hi, for some reason I never look down there at the hint line. I will try to use it more often, but I think with a lot of visually oriented people it gets overlooked as we tend to want to tinker to figure things out, stumbling along when the answer is right down there in front of us... :rolleyes: Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxClass Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 lmartin, Do you have “Marquee Select on Touch” checked in Preferences>User Interface. My personal preference. That way you only have to select a portion of any entity in order to select the entirety of it. Max Quote OS X Ventura 13.0.1, Mac Studio M1 Max, 27" Apple Studio Display, 32 GB SSD. Affinity Universal License for 2.0. Mac User & Programmer since 1985 to date. Author of “SignPost” for vinyl sign cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmartins Posted September 12, 2014 Author Share Posted September 12, 2014 Oh, nice, that is even better. Works similar to im used to in Sketch and it is way nicer. Thanks for the tip Max. lmartin, Do you have “Marquee Select on Touch” checked in Preferences>User Interface. My personal preference. That way you only have to select a portion of any entity in order to select the entirety of it. Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripul Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Can I select multiple objects in one mouse drag ? I seem to be trying but I am unable to select multiple objects, it just selects the current layer. I tried grouping them and then selecting but it does not work. How do I move a vector object across different files in affinity designer ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 If you start to drag a marquee above a background image, it will only select the background. You need to start to drag from outside the background image. Then it will only select the images the marquee completely surrounds., not the background image. Alternatively, press down Ctrl + Alt and it will not select the background, only the objects the marquee surrounds. This is for a PC, I guess it is Cmd + Alt on a Mac. Note: That will only work if the background is not selected already. The easiest way is to deselect the background is to click on one of the objects you want to select (which selects that instead of the background) press Ctrl + Alt and then drag around everything you want. sowenjub 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 @PaoloT It seems that your previous question about this was split from this thread and given its own thread:https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/166634-how-to-drag-to-select-nodes-from-multiple-layers-split/ (The split was probably made because this thread is around three years old and the subjects aren’t totally related.) You can hide the post in this thread ('three dots icon' at top-right of your post) and continue the discussion in the new thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 5 hours ago, GarryP said: your previous question about this was split from this thread Thanx! I was wondering why I had lost my post! Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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