patarchimichanga Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Ok so I'm trying to move an object but i have to first click on the sidebar in order to move the full object. It only does that with three of the objects I have, there are 6 total. Now I know that it probably sounds a little ridiculous to have a complaint like this, but its mildly frustrating that I have to do it this way. Does anyone know why it does that or how to fix it? One picture (if they showed up) shows me having click on the object but it only selecting the layer The other shows the whole object being selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @patarchimichanga. In your first screenshot, your "object" is a (Layer), which is a container for objects. I think that when you click on it Designer is selecting the object (within the Layer) that you clicked on. In the second screenshot, your object is a Group, and when you click on some part of the group the whole group is selected. Layers and Groups operate differently, and I think you'll either need to get used to the differences or pick the one to use that operates as you want. patarchimichanga 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 You can alt-click on an individual object within a group to select it independently, and then move and edit it without modifying the other grouped objects. This avoids having to select it in the Layers panel. patarchimichanga 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 You can select the Layer (Layer) and Press CMD (⌘) + G on Mac, Ctrl + G On Windows) to place the Layer (layer) in a group. You can also left click and hold then drag the cursor over the shape from top left to bottom right, effectively selecting every whole object within that selections bounds, you can now move those objects. There is a setting in preferences to override the select whole objects only. Select layers.mp4 patarchimichanga 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patarchimichanga Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 21 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @patarchimichanga. In your first screenshot, your "object" is a (Layer), which is a container for objects. I think that when you click on it Designer is selecting the object (within the Layer) that you clicked on. In the second screenshot, your object is a Group, and when you click on some part of the group the whole group is selected. Layers and Groups operate differently, and I think you'll either need to get used to the differences or pick the one to use that operates as you want. Thank you so much. The more you know.. right? lol 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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