TonyEnpress Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) I just buy the affinity designer and I think the selection tool is annoying me so much because I have to drag selection area to cover the object to selection. In IIlustrator, I just need to drag selection area to some part of objects to select it (dont need to fully cover). Yes, I know it's not Illustrator but does it have any ways to make the selection work like Illustrator?Image1 (AD) :The selection area doesn't fully cover any objects so no object selected.Image2: (Ai) : The selection area also doesn't full cover any objects but all objects are selected. <<<< This is what I want. ***Sorry for my bad English. Edited March 19, 2020 by TonyEnpress Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Tony. Check your Designer Preferences: TonyEnpress 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
TonyEnpress Posted March 19, 2020 Author Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) 19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Tony. Check your Designer Preferences: Thank you so much, Walt. You are my lifesaver. 🥰🥰🥰 Edited March 19, 2020 by TonyEnpress Quote
walt.farrell Posted March 19, 2020 Posted March 19, 2020 You're welcome, Tony. But I just got there first 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
Annabella_K Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 Thanks Walt, just what I was looking for! I wish we could switch it with a button, depending on what works best in each case. Quote
Staff MEB Posted March 24, 2020 Staff Posted March 24, 2020 Hi Annabella_K, You can. Press and hold the right-mouse button along with the left one on Windows (or the ctrl button if you are using a Mac) to toggle between the two behaviours. So if you want to select several objects using a marquee including some not fully encompassed by it, press and hold the left mouse button, drag the marquee, press and hold the right mouse button to include the ones not fully encompassed by the marquee, and release the left button. You should end up will all objects selected. lacerto 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
kaffeeundsalz Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 I wonder why this seems to be such an unknown feature for so many. Could it be that they just don't read the documentation? Both what walt.farrell and MEB said is comprehensively explained in Affinity Designer's online help under Object control > selecting objects. Quote
Annabella_K Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 21 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said: I wonder why this seems to be such an unknown feature for so many. Could it be that they just don't read the documentation? Both what walt.farrell and MEB said is comprehensively explained in Affinity Designer's online help under Object control > selecting objects. Thanks for the reminder kaffeeundsalz. 👍 I watched all the videos when I started to use Publisher, but I'm so used to Googleing everything (which mostly brings up the forum for me), I totally forgot to check the help file. It really is a treasure kaffeeundsalz 1 Quote
R C-R Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 6 hours ago, kaffeeundsalz said: I wonder why this seems to be such an unknown feature for so many. Probably because lots of people like to just fire up new apps & see if they can figure out how everything works without wading through the documentation. Fixx 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Staff MEB Posted March 25, 2020 Staff Posted March 25, 2020 Hi Lagarto, We are aware the right-mouse button is not the most practical solution. It was chosen because we had limited options on Windows (one less modifier key) and wanted to keep shortcuts parity between Mac and Windows as much consistent possible like so: Mac Command key = Windows Ctrl key Mac Shift key = Windows Shift key Mac Alt key = Windows Alt key Mac Ctrl key = Windows Right Mouse button For some operations this does indeed cause a few issues and some shortcuts were already changed/break that "convention". We are still considering changing it if we found better solution. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
tropilio Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 Having the possibility to set a key modifier to switch between the two behaviors would be very comfortable, especially for Windows users using a touchpad with no physical buttons (like me...). Quote
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