"Centre on selection" in layer right click menu

[Roqoco]

If you select a shape in the layer panel and it is small and/or offscreen, it can be very hard to locate where it is on your canvas/artboard. A straight forward solution would be to put a "centre on selection" option into the right click menu that appears when you right click on the shape in the layer panel. This would center the canvas on the object  This would be the complementary functionality to the "find in layers panel" option that you get when you directly right click on a shape in the canvas/artboard and would be equally useful.

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[Roqoco]

Thanks. Have been looking for that for weeks, and finally concluded it was not implemented. Still probably a good idea to make it a right click option, I would think, to make it easy to find. Otherwise it is a bit like learning Wordstar (where everything was done by esoteric key combinations). Also, it would be preferable if there was an option not to change the current zoom level.

Edited February 8, 2021 by Roqoco
Further thought

[dominik]

1 hour ago, Roqoco said:

If you select a shape in the layer panel and it is small and/or offscreen, it can be very hard to locate where it is on your canvas/artboard.

Hi @Roqoco,

double click the layer. There is nothing against having it as a right click menu entry, too 🙂

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[Roqoco]

4 minutes ago, dominik said:

Hi @Roqoco,

double click the layer. There is nothing against having it as a right click menu entry, too 🙂

d.

Double clicking was the first thing that occurred to me. But, it did nothing cos I was clicking in the wrong place... I see now that you have to double click on the description text "Ellipse", "Curve" etc. for this to work. That is really useful to know! Appreciate it.

 "right click menu entry" Yeah... in the meantime I found a keyboard shortcut summary https://resources.serif.com/spotlight/learning/shortcuts/Affinity-Designer-Shortcuts-Windows.pdf which I will scour with a tooth comb.

[dominik]

3 minutes ago, Roqoco said:

which I will scour with a tooth comb.

And I am sure you will find some quite interesting things in there 🙂

It's available online, too:
https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html

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[dominik]

2 hours ago, haakoo said:

I'm sorry but doesn't seem to be in designer ,though it does in photo.

Hi @haakoo,

I'm on Windows and I can easily double click on a layer to bring it up fullscreen (double click on the layer's thumbnail). What could be different with you?

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[Roqoco]

1 minute ago, haakoo said:

@dominik nothing, should have quoted myself.

Ctrl+Alt+0 isn't in designer though in photo.double clicking works.

Hmm - both Ctrl+Alt+0 and double clicking on the thumbnail do appear to work in designer in 1.9 at least. Have you checked this recently?