Toolbar missing. No panels. Can't figure out how to get back ...

[Eagle Works]

Hello

I am trying the 90 day trial of Affinity Designer

I am an Inkscape user checking out Designer.

Lost my toolbars and no panels are showing.

I can't figure out where/how to get them to show up.

I would think it should be in View or Windows menu, but not seeing it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Bob

[Eagle Works]

I was able to get the toolbar on top and the left to show.

How do I get the panels (color wheels, layers, for example) to show up?

Thanks

Bob

[Eagle Works]

I'm sorry.  I was too hasty in posting a question.
I have been looking at Help, Youtube tutorials, etc.

I am starting to get a feel for the Studio panels.

I really use shortcuts a lot.

Is there a way to set a shortcut to the Studio command in the View Menu?

I'll figure this stuff out!

Thanks for checking in.

Bob

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

It sounds like you probably hid the entire UI, by pressing Tab or using View > Toggle UI. If so, you would just press Tab or use the View menu again.

You can set shortcuts for individual Studio panels, or for anything contained in the View > Studio menu (such as Hide Studio, or Show Left/Right Studio) but not for the View > Studio menu itself. Just go to Preferences, Keyboard Shortcuts, and select the View menu.

[malahide]

Designer - I cannot get layers panel on screen. I have gone into ' layers' tab at top of screen and hit show all and also toggled Ul bot to no avail. Any suggestions?

[DWright]

You can restore all of the studios back to default by using View > Studio > Reset Studio

[MPrimeX]

I was able to get my layers, color, swatches toolbars back by going to View > Studio > Hide Studio (uncheck)

[Nightstalker]

As of 2023, it is now under WINDOW > STUDIO > Hide Studio, or Shift + H ( which is most likely how it was hidden in the first place ) 

[Tim Moerman]

My toolbar has vanished and I can't get it back. "Show toolbar" is clicked on. I have tried restarting the computer. I have downloaded the latest update (I'm on iOS, Big Sur 10.4)

This has  happened a lot, but the new wrinkle is that all that remains of the toolbar (i.e. the settings bar, where you would e.g. tell it contiguous or no for the magic wand) is itself devoid of any controls. The screenshot below shows my entire screen with Affinity on--note the nearly-blank dark gray box where the tool settings would ordinarily be. And, more importantly, the actual toolbar is completely gone.

Editorial comment: People were commenting about this happening six years ago. FFS. FFS, people. FFS!!!!! I have one day away from my ongoing grind to work on my art and I can't do it because of this long-standing bug.

[Tim Moerman]

48 minutes ago, Tim Moerman said:

My toolbar has vanished and I can't get it back. "Show toolbar" is clicked on. I have tried restarting the computer. I have downloaded the latest update (I'm on iOS, Big Sur 10.4)

This has  happened a lot, but the new wrinkle is that all that remains of the toolbar (i.e. the settings bar, where you would e.g. tell it contiguous or no for the magic wand) is itself devoid of any controls. The screenshot below shows my entire screen with Affinity on--note the nearly-blank dark gray box where the tool settings would ordinarily be. And, more importantly, the actual toolbar is completely gone.

Editorial comment: People were commenting about this happening six years ago. FFS. FFS, people. FFS!!!!! I have one day away from my ongoing grind to work on my art and I can't do it because of this long-standing bug.

Update on this: I have actually uninstalled and re-installed it from the App store. The toolbar is STILL GONE.

[walt.farrell]

Do you ever use a second monitor, @Tim Moerman? If so, do you have it plugged-in and turned on now?

Have you tried pressing Tab?

Have you tried Window > Studio > and then turning off Hide Studio?