Photo: Anybody finding that no layer is selected, much of the time?

[Stokestack]

I'm continually finding that things don't work in Photo because no layer is selected. It happens pretty much every time I use Photo.

Just now I added some text to an illustration; for my next action, I found that nothing happened because no layer was selected. It's doubly annoying because I don't know how this state arises, because by the time you're aware of it it's too late; and I don't like filing bug reports without steps to reproduce.

But a related problem (and this is rampant in Affinity apps) is that much (most?) of the UI remains enabled despite being inapplicable (because there's no appropriate selection). Then you're left wondering why whatever you did had no effect.

[firstdefence]

You could use the apps while recording the screen for a while and if the no layer issue occurs you can look back at the video to see what happened.

[Joachim_L]

In the past days/weeks I was too often pretty sure, that I selected/did something and to my surprise the layer/something was not selected. Maybe the beginning of a serious disease on my side? 🙄

[walt.farrell]

If you're experiencing "nothing is selected", perhaps one of these will explain it:

1. Clicking on the canvas outside of any layer, or clicking on the pasteboard, will deselect layers.
2. If you're drawing a shape (rectangle, etc.) there is a Context Toolbar option that is (I think) new to 1.9. If this is off, the new object won't be selected automatically, and you'll end up with nothing selected:
   
    

 

[Stokestack]

Thanks, but I don't think the canvas was bigger than the biggest layer (so I couldn't have clicked a no-layer area). Also I wasn't drawing a shape. I had just added some text, however.

I'll try to figure out how this is happening. It doesn't seem like a condition that should even be allowed.