ronnyb Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Hi, it would be great to have the option to snap to locked objects as well as hidden objects, as is currently available. Thanks for your consideration Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Hi Ronny, currently Affinity Designer does indeed snap to locked objects, but the strange thing is, you cannot get locked objects on the snapping candidates list, once they were pushed off the list by adding new objects … Here’s a little test: Open the attached file, turn on “Show snapping candidates”, and hover over the six bright grey squares to put them on the snapping candidates list. Now try to put one of the darker ones (they are locked) on the list by hovering over it. Impossible. Now lock the out-of-the-row square (which is still a snapping candidate … and its position does not give false results for the following test), and try to snap one of the other ones to it … this does work. All in all, I believe we rather should request the option to put locked objects on the snapping candidates list … What do you think? Alex :) Locked_Out.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 That makes sense, I couldn't figure out why sometimes it did and sometimes it didn't... Yes I like what you are saying as well. I also wouldn't mind the ability to treat Groups of objects (including all objects inside the group) as a single snapping candidate... I noticed the limits of this when I was playing around with the mobile web template someone had uploaded and I believe it was you who modified and added guides to enable the snapping behavior that we can't really do now... I'm looking forward to seeing what the guys come up with, as Snapping improvements are definitely on their radar... Hi Ronny, currently Affinity Designer does indeed snap to locked objects, but the strange thing is, you cannot get locked objects on the snapping candidates list, once they were pushed off the list by adding new objects … Here’s a little test: Open the attached file, turn on “Show snapping candidates”, and hover over the six bright grey squares to put them on the snapping candidates list. Now try to put one of the darker ones (they are locked) on the list by hovering over it. Impossible. Now lock the out-of-the-row square (which is still a snapping candidate … and its position does not give false results for the following test), and try to snap one of the other ones to it … this does work. All in all, I believe we rather should request the option to put locked objects on the snapping candidates list … What do you think? Alex :) A_B_C 1 Quote 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 So that's why sometimes I can't get certain objects to become a candidate. Next time I run into this problem I shall need to check the lock status. Thanks Alex. I frequently use the lock to signal that I am done with an operation that I am doing to many layers. Sort of a place mark. A_B_C 1 Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 17, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2015 Hi Ronny, currently Affinity Designer does indeed snap to locked objects, but the strange thing is, you cannot get locked objects on the snapping candidates list, once they were pushed off the list by adding new objects … Hi A_B_C, ronnyb, This is a known bug that's already logged but wasn't fixed yet. I believe the improvements Ben is working on here will solve those issues. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted September 17, 2015 Staff Share Posted September 17, 2015 It's on the list.... and the list is long. ;) A_B_C, ronnyb and Gear maker 3 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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