wiredfractal Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 I love using the Touchbar on my Mac especially with Affinity Designer. It lessens the pain with my left/right hand as I can forgo using keyboard shortcut keys or that few seconds travel from a mouse or pen tablet to pressing it on UI tools. I noticed that the Touchbar disappear when I switch to another app. When I switch back, only the Functions Keys will appear. I have to close the app, restart. If I hide Affinity Designer or switch to another app, I lose the access to the custom Touchbar functions. When I switch to the Beta version of Affinity Designer, the custom Touchbar is there. So I just keep using the beta app most of the time. But doing this also risking my projects in getting lost in case of bugs due to being beta. I've used the latest stable version of Mac OS 11.4. I've also tried switching to the MacOS beta 11.5 to see if the problem get fixed but still encountering the same problem. As I said, I love using the Touchbar and hoping it won't get away soon. I just find it more accessible and lessened the pain with my hands when working on my design projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted June 7, 2021 Staff Share Posted June 7, 2021 Hey wiredfractal, I can't seem to reproduce this with the default Touch Bar - can you screenshot your Touch Bar settings so I can try and replicate this? Please include these settings in the screenshot as well as anything else you might think it useful. - Touch Bar shows - Customise Control Strip Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiredfractal Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 Here is a video showing the touchbar changing to just function keys when I hide the Affinity app. IMG_0222.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted June 7, 2021 Staff Share Posted June 7, 2021 Hi wiredfractal, What are the settings in the System Preferneces > Keyboard set to? Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiredfractal Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 It is set to show App Controls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted June 8, 2021 Staff Share Posted June 8, 2021 Thank you. I will keep trying to reproduce this and keep my eye out for it. It may have happened to me but I've just never noticed. For what it's worth, I seemingly have the same setting as you so it is likely something else causing it. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiredfractal Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 I also tried turning on/off the "Enable TOuchbar Support on Affinity Designer Preference pane. Hope the team figures it out. Let me know if you need some diagnostic files on my end. For now, will keep using the beta as the touchbar controls has become integral to my Affinity Designer workflow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiredfractal Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 Update: Installed the public beta 1 of Monterey and the issue is still there for 1.9.3. Affinity Designer 10.0.3 beta doesn't have this problem. I forgot to mention that I also have Affinity Photo and Publisher but Touchbar function is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted July 9, 2021 Staff Share Posted July 9, 2021 Thanks for the update. I can't see any fixes for this in the beta releases so I'm not sure why this is working and retail is not. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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