kai.wheatley Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 As the title suggests, I would like to add a mouse "drag" to a custom shortcut, is this possible?? I am trying to freely rotate the canvas as you can do in Photoshop with "Shift + R + drag" but I am unable to add a drag to the shortcuts. Is this possible?? This seems like a simple feature that should be implemented. Rotating in 15 degree increments is almost never what I want, as I need specific angles for specific strokes etc. It's also incredibly slow to have to hit rotate a bunch of times to get it where I want. If it's not possible to create this shortcut, please for the love of all things good....... ADD THIS BASIC FEATURE! So far Affinity seems pretty good, but it should really have all these basic workflows from PS covered. Rotating the canvas quickly and precisely may seem trivial, but it is actually a HUGE impedance to workflow. Please please please fix this if there is not already a fix for it, surely there are many users who need/want/require this basic function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Hi and welcome, well, if this function is not explicitly/directly available under the assignable/adjustable keyboard preferences shortcuts, then you are on lost ground here! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai.wheatley Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 That's what I am asking, which is why in my first line I ask "is it possible??". In the shortcut hotkeys doc, many hot keys use a mouse drag or click, so it would be reasonable to think that I could add these to custom shortcuts, but perhaps I am wrong. And, just as a point of record, I'm not sure if you work for Affinity or are just an active user, and I'm sure your comment was not meant to be condescending, but it comes off that way, and that's really no way to introduce a frustrated new user to the software. If you know that the answer is no, then just say so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Just a comment to note that the view rotation function has been improved in the 1.9 beta. Still nothing that would allow you to add "drag" to your own shortcuts, but it's possible to rotate freely, in other than 15-degree increments. It's mentioned in this announcement for Designer beta 1.9.0.780: 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai.wheatley Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 Thanks Walt. That rotate around mouse would work, except that there is no mousewheel on my pen. A step in the right direction though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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