Macros Recording/Playback

[Robbob]

I have copied James Ritter's tutorial on processing an infra red image and recorded it as a macro. When I come to make parts of the recording as visible during playback I cannot scroll on the presented list to click the eyeball. For example the list for Selective Colour Adjustment is quite long and I cannot get to the top of it. My question is how do I scroll on this list - thanks for looking

[v_kyr]

See "3. Macros layers behavior" ...

Macros

1. Macros
2. Macros: Equations
3. Macros: Layer Behaviour
4. Batch Processing with Macros

[carl123]

22 minutes ago, Robbob said:

For example the list for Selective Colour Adjustment is quite long and I cannot get to the top of it. My question is how do I scroll on this list -

You should have a scroll bar on that list to scroll all the items into view

Can you give us a screenshot of what you are seeing?

[Robbob]

 

 

 

Thanks Carl - screenshot below

[v_kyr]

Doesn't look like you've got a scrollbar there, or it's hidden under the text fields and appears only on demand.

[Robbob]

Thank you for reply, and link to tutorials in your previous mail

I guessed there should be a scroll bar but I can't make it visible, perhaps I need to reinstall program

Thanks again

[carl123]

Attached is mine with a scroll bar

If you can't make that box wider (grab and drag right-hand side) it may be a MAC specific issue or something on your device

I am on Windows so may not be able to help you further

Please specify your MAC OS version for others to check

 

[Robbob]

Thanks for taking the trouble to do that Carl, very kind of you

I am using a pretty ancient machine from 2010 so perhaps you are right could be the problem

Thanks again

 

 

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, carl123 said:

If you can't make that box wider (grab and drag right-hand side) it may be a MAC specific issue or something on your device

FWIW, I am running macOS Mojave on my 27" iMac & have the same issue with editing the Selective Color Adjustment > Set adjustment parameters in a macro -- the popup list is longer than will fit into the height of the screen (even in full screen mode with the Macro panel floating at the extreme top of the screen) & there is no way to scroll it or make it wider.

System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars is set to "Always" so that isn't a factor.

Typically for me in normal screen mode, the list begins at the "Yellow (Yellows)" slider, with just a sliver of the slider of whatever parameter is just above it visible, with the "Set adjustment parameters" text between those two sliders, just like in @Robbob's screenshot:

In full screen mode with the Macro panel floating at the extreme top of the screen, I get two more yellows but the 'set adjustment' text is still in the wrong place:

IIRC, it has been like this since the first retail version of AP I installed (version 1.3.4 in July of 2015), so probably at least in combination with OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite or later. It is also the same with the Light UI & with either the default or Large Font UI setting.

[Robbob]

Thank you for posting, very interesting

I'm using High Sierra so adding your comments I think it is starting to look like like an issue with macOS. As you probably noticed another poster to my question has a scroll bar showing on their Windows machine

Hopefully someone from Affinity will read this and can advise or address this issue

Thanks again

 

[v_kyr]

2 minutes ago, Robbob said:

Hopefully someone from Affinity will read this and can advise or address this issue

I would not bet on it and therefore it's better to write a bug report for that theme here.

[Robbob]

Thanks for the information and link

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

I would not bet on it and therefore it's better to write a bug report for that theme here.

It has been so long that I can't be sure about this but IIRC I did report this issue to the bugs section (whatever it was called then) back in late 2015 or in 2016.

I searched for the report in the pre 1.8 archives forum but that only goes back to June 2019, so it is not surprising that I could not find it. I think it fell through the cracks during one of the forum software updates.

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

I searched for the report...

You can try Google instead, which probably has a better long time memory for certain things here. Try with "site:forum.affinity.serif.com" and "before:year" "after:year" etc. in order to narrow and refine your search. Or use their advanced search.

[R C-R]

3 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

You can try Google instead, which probably has a better long time memory for certain things here. Try with "site:forum.affinity.serif.com" and "before:year" "after:year" etc. in order to narrow and refine your search. Or use their advanced search.

I don't think Google can find pages that no longer exist on a web site, so for that the 'Wayback machine' might be a better choice.

However, since @Robbob created a bug report in the current Photo Bugs found on MacOS forum, I will wait & see what the staff have to say about it there.