thomasp Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 First of all I'm not sure if it's a bug or a wrong preference setting: What happens is that the circle showing brush size only appears during a paint stroke (pen down on Wacom tablet) and with pen up (pen hovering above the drawing area) it show the standard OSX mouse cursor. During normal operations that leads to a situation where the mouse pointer and the brush size preview or any gizmo to interact with layer contents constantly alternate (flicker). I've only recently upgraded my OS from High Sierra to Mojave and also updated AP and AD. I'm absolutely sure that I changed nothing in my preferences and that the behaviour wasn't there in 1.7.3 on High Sierra. It affects both AP and AD 1.8.1 Also it seems to only happen when switching from another application to AP/AD via clicking into its interface (running in separated mode here). Quote
Old Bruce Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 That is weird that you get the brush preview when the pen is on the tablet and the Mac Cursor when it is up. I get the circle/preview as soon as I choose the brush tool. First thing I would check is the Wacom drivers current version here on OS 10.14.6 is 6.3.38-3 I should add that I never ran High Sierra went from 10.12.x to this one. thomasp 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
thomasp Posted March 6, 2020 Author Posted March 6, 2020 Yeah I just compared with another installation of Affinity (different OS version) and there I do not have mouse cursor at all on the canvas with paint tools active. Nice tip with the Wacom drivers, I have 6.3.30-something installed, 2018 era stuff. Will try out over the weekend, just have to do a backup first. Quote
Staff Gabe Posted March 25, 2020 Staff Posted March 25, 2020 Hi @thomasp, I've just had the exact same issue this morning. I rebooted my iMac and was fine ever since. I've installed the XP pen artist drives and this happened. I believe it somehow hijacks the cursor for the session until you reboot, as I've never seen this before. Quote
thomasp Posted May 18, 2020 Author Posted May 18, 2020 Long time - but my Mac became unavailable soon after I posted that. I seem to have resolved the issue by installing the latest Wacom driver available for the OS. Quote
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