Move Selections without "active handles" Affinity Designer

[abra100pro]

When you select something it gets these handles around it. Sometimes they disturb your view of the whole when moving the selection - especially if you nudge them to the best place with the cursor keys (left, right, up and down). I found out that these handles disappear when you hold the spacebar. Doing so you can then move/nudge the selected elements without distractions.

[MKM Pottery Tools]

Thanks, Abra100pro.  This is nice to know!  -=Rick

[JohnM]

When I do this a hand appears and the whole page moves, not the selection. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

[telemax]

Also, but for moving objects

[jmwellborn]

8 hours ago, JohnM said:

When I do this a hand appears and the whole page moves, not the selection. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Are you clicking outside your canvas?  If you hold the spacebar down and click on the desktop you will get the Hand tool, so you can move the canvas back and forth or up and down.  If you hold the spacebar while an object inside the canvas is highlighted (the four blue dots) then the arrow keys will do the job.  Hope this will help.

[JohnM]

Thanks, got it. I was expecting the move tool and mouse to move just the selection.

[abra100pro]

On 8/29/2020 at 9:11 AM, JohnM said:

When I do this a hand appears and the whole page moves, not the selection. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

You must not move it with the mouse - but with the cursor keys (together with SHIFT they move in bigger steps).