Macro and Library Panel Missing

[DH_Tn]

Affinity Photo ver. 1.8.0.585, Dell Inspiron 5770,  Windows 10 pro (x64)  ver. 10.0.18363

I can no longer get the Macro or Library panels to show in any of the Panel sections. (View>Studio>Macro or >Library)

1. The entries on the Studio list show both Macro and Library with check marks. Keyboard macros Ctrl+Alt+L and Ctrl+Alt+M work as expected in selectiing and deselecting the Macro and Library panels

2. Removing and reselectng Library and/or Macro via View>Studio makes no difference other than adding or removing the check marks. Also View>Studio>Reset Studio does not change the situation.

3. Removing C:\Users\darel\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user\macros.propcol and restarting Affinity Photo does not help. Macros.propcol does get recreated.

4. Adding a user-created macros file by dropping on the workspace does not result in an error but the panels are still not visible.

The last time I used the Macro and Library panels was around mid February when they were used together in a floating window separate from the main panels sections.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Do you have multiple monitors? Or, more importantly, did you have multiple monitors the last time you used them, and might you have dragged their floating window onto a monitor you don't currently have installed?

[DH_Tn]

All work has been on a laptop without any other monitors.

[smadell]

I would try two things, in order:

1) On the Studio submenu, make sure that both the Left Studio and the Right Studio are shown, not hidden.

2) If they are, try choosing Reset Studio, also from that submenu.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, smadell said:

On the Studio submenu, make sure that both the Left Studio and the Right Studio are shown, not hidden

That's a Mac setting, and DH_tn is on Windows.

[DH_Tn]

Left Studio was not showing. Displaying it SOLVED THE PROBLEM.

THANKS for the speedy help!!

[smadell]

Glad to hear it. I was just now responding to Walt about Left and Right Studios being Mac only, but I’m glad to hear that it seems that’s not the case. Glad you’re up and running!

 

[walt.farrell]

Interesting. I was sure Windows didn't have that setting. Sorry. 

[smadell]

No harm, no foul, Walt!

[carl123]

6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Interesting. I was sure Windows didn't have that setting. Sorry. 

It didn't !!!

They seemed to have introduced

Show Left studio
Show Right studio

in 1.8 without me noticing it either

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, carl123 said:

They seemed to have introduced

Show Left studio
Show Right studio

in 1.8 without me noticing it either

The Mac versions have had those two options since forever, but what they do not have is any way to have two docked Left or two docked Right studio groups. As I understand it, the Windows versions could do that, at least prior to 1.8.

So I am curious: in the Windows versions can you still have two docked Left or Right studio groups or has that feature been replaced with the two new ones?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

So I am curious: in the Windows versions can you still have two docked Left or Right studio groups

Yes, we still have the option of two docked groups for both the left and right studios.

There's a small bug, though (at least in the current beta versions). If you have two panel groups docked on the left, and you hide the left studio, both disappear as one would expect. However, if you have a docked studio group, and a floating group, you can hide the docked left group by unchecking View > Show Left Studio. You can then dock the floating group to the left side, even though the left studio is hidden. The blue bar showing where you're docking appears where it would have been if the studio were not hidden, but then the panel docks to the normal docked studio position.

[Patodlp]

Hay I have the same problem but in the macro window it doesn’t appear the library section! Can you help me?

[walt.farrell]

22 minutes ago, Patodlp said:

I have the same problem but in the macro window it doesn’t appear the library section! Can you help me?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Can you describe your problem in more detail, please. I'm not sure if you're not seeing one of the studio panels (which one), or both of them. And I'm not sure what you mean by "it" doesn't appear in the library section. What doesn't appear?

A screenshot might help, including the View > Studio pulldown so we can see what studio panels you have selected.

[Aad Slingerland]

On 3/16/2020 at 10:28 PM, DH_Tn said:

The last time I used the Macro and Library panels was around mid February when they were used together in a floating window separate from the main panels sections.

Please try Alt-Tab to reveal all application windows. 

[DH_Tn]

   When I had this problem, I found out that there is a "Left Studio Window" that I was not aware of and that was where the Macro and Library tabs were located at the time.

1. First make sure that the Library and Macro tabs are flagged as visible
    a. Select:  View > Studio and click "Library" if it does not already have a check mark beside it.
    b. Select:  View > Studio and click "Macro" if it does not already have a check mark beside it.
2. If you do not see the the Macro and Library tabs in the Studio panels on the right side of the Affinity window, look in the Left studio window
    a. Select View > Studio and click "Show Left Studio" if it does not already have a check mark beside it.
3. You should now show the following items as Checked (Enabled) under View > Studio:
     a. Macro, Library, Show Left Studio, and Show Right Studio
4.  View > Studio > Hide Studio should be unchecked

At this point you should be able to see the Macro and Library tabs in the Left or Right studio panels. You can Click and Drag tabs from one studio panel to another if you wish.
 

 

 

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[rwpinto]

Hello,

I am working on a Mac, and have both the Left Studio and Right Studio checked in the Studio options. Neither the Macro nor the Library options appear in either the Designer Persona or Pixel Persona. Any suggestions? Thank you.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, rwpinto said:

Neither the Macro nor the Library options appear in either the Designer Persona or Pixel Persona. Any suggestions?

The Macro & Library functions are in the Affinity Photo app, not in the Affinity Designer app.