Keyboard shortcuts to switch windows (and/or tabs)

[VIPStephan]

The standard OSX keyboard shortcut to switch between windows in an application is ⌘> and ⌘<, respectively. In AD these shortcuts are reserved for text size increase/decrease and there is no way to change that, by the way (these “hooks” are missing in the preference panel, there is just Size > Precise Bigger/Smaller). I would like to use the standard keyboard shortcuts to switch between windows in separated mode, too. And perhaps this could be extended to tabs (in both modes), i. e. in the single window mode the shortcuts would switch between tabs and in separated mode it would switch between tabs in a single window until the last tab is active, and then it switches to the next window (or reverse in the reverse direction). How does that sound?

[Hokusai]

VIPStephan,

 

The standard OS X keyboard shortcut to switch between windows in an application is the ⌘ + ` (the tilde symbol). Which OS X applications use the ⌘ + >? Safari, Text Edit, etc use the ⌘ + `. The older versions of Affinity Designer used a different keyboard command but the newest beta uses the ⌘ + ` to switch between windows in an application. 

 

Hokusai

[VIPStephan]

Sorry, then it’s only in the German keyboard layout. There the key with < and > is next to the left Shift key, and it is used to switch between windows of an application. But my point is still valid.

[Hokusai]

VIPStephan,

 

Sorry, I have never used a German keyboard layout but it must be different from the English keyboard layout then.  I didn't see it as an option in the keyboard mapping in the beta but maybe they could add it to the choices (or maybe it is there and I just didn't see it)? 

 

Hokusai

[Andrew Tang]

The way to switch documents in any Affinity product is Control + TAB (⌘⇥), or Control + Shift + TAB (⌘⇧⇥) to go in reverse. In the latest MAS release Command + Tilda (⌘`) can also be used to switch views at the request of some of our users. In the latest beta (and so will be available in the next MAS release), you can customise this shortcut for Command + Tilda (⌘`) to anything you like. :)

[Konspaul]

Looks like Control + TAB goes through recently used tabs and doesn't switch tabs in normal order. Is it possible to change this behavior?

[puertomixto]

On 4/3/2020 at 12:41 PM, Konspaul said:

Looks like Control + TAB goes through recently used tabs and doesn't switch tabs in normal order. Is it possible to change this behavior?

You're right, that's the same issue I experience on mine. Looks like CTRL+TAB allows you to move only to the next tab open (as well as to swith back from it, in cycle) ignoring the remaining tabs in the session.
The only way to fix the problem is the use CTRL+SHIFT+TAB, that should be intended for moving backward to the other tabs open, but basically lets you perform the same identical task, albeit in the opposite direction. This seems to work properly, which suggests the CTRL+TAB misbehaviour is a bug that I hope someone at Serif will fix in the next updates of V2.

I've also tried to change the shortcuts (to set CTRL+TAB in place of CTRL+SHIFT+TAB, but the operation seems to be impossibile from the "Shortcut" section of the preferences. It would have made everything easier in the meantime, as the key combination we're forced to use is undoubtedly less confortable for the fingers.

Edited January 16 by puertomixto
typo at the word "task"... I wrote "taste" instead of the other word... just a distraction, I'm not a native speaker