Affinity Designer Mac all panels and tools missing

[LionrockNZ]

Hi there

I seem to have clicked something accidently and all the panels, and top menu tools have dissappeared. I can get side tool bar to appear with TAB key. Tried Tool reset, Separated mode, Toggle UI - nothing works!

Cheers

Peter

[LionrockNZ]

Ah all sorted now - I selected View>studio>reset studio

Quite odd how everything just disappeared with one (admittedly accidental) keystroke.

[Schorsch]

12 hours ago, LionrockNZ said:

Ah all sorted now - I selected View>studio>reset studio

Quite odd how everything just disappeared with one (admittedly accidental) keystroke.

I'm from the Windows corner, but maybe the Mac version is the same?

In the Windows version you can press the TAB key to show or hide the complete menu.

Friendly greetings

Georg

[LionrockNZ]

Hi Georg

Pressing TAB key would toggle the display of the left side toolbar only. In order to bring back all the other panels, I had to reset studio. 

Shift Command H hides the studio but it seems unlikely I pressed that combination by accident. Anyway, all fixed now 🙂

Thanks

Peter

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, LionrockNZ said:

Pressing TAB key would toggle the display of the left side toolbar only.

I can duplicate that behavior as follows:

1. Open any document or create a new one.
2. In normal window mode with all the studio panels, toolbars, & the Tools panel visible, press Tab to hide everything except the workspace window.
3. Switch to Separated Mode. At this point, only the workspace window & Tools panel are visible.
4. Press Tab several times (or use "Toggle UI" from the View menu to do the same thing).

Result: only the Tools panel toggles on & off. The Studio panels & toolbars remain hidden. View > Show Toolbar & View > Show Context Toolbar do work to toggle on & off their visible but View > Studio > Hide Studio has no effect. All the other items in the View > Studio submenu except Reset Studio & Hide Studio are greyed out.

If instead of resetting the Studio at that point I then just exit Separated Mode, I would expect pressing Tab again would restore the UI to what it was at the beginning of step 2 -- the UI layout should be 'sticky' for each of the two window modes. But instead neither the Tools nor studio panels are restored to visibility. The toolbars retain whatever visibility state they were in before exiting Separated Mode but I have to separately untick Hide Studio & tick Show Tools to get them back.

There are some variations on this behavior but what it amounts to is using Tab to hide the UI in normal mode & then switching to Separated Mode & back to normal mode again hides the studio & Tools panels.