Michael Romeo Posted November 19, 2021 Posted November 19, 2021 My tool icons do not expand when the white arrow is clicked. Please help Quote
Michael Romeo Posted November 22, 2021 Author Posted November 22, 2021 I am a new user. My tool icons do not expand when the white arrow is clicked. ALSO, please, please, and more please make the tool icons bigger. . . lot bigger! Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 22, 2021 Posted November 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, Michael Romeo said: I am a new user. My tool icons do not expand when the white arrow is clicked. Is it a click or a click and hold? Might need the latter, the click hold. Are you using a Windows computer or a Mac computer? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Michael Romeo Posted November 22, 2021 Author Posted November 22, 2021 The "click-hold" advise did it! Thank you! Michael Quote
R C-R Posted November 22, 2021 Posted November 22, 2021 Note that you can customize the Tools panel via View > Customize Tools... (not to be confused with Customize Toolbar ... on the same menu). So among other things you can set it to use 2 or more columns of tool icons & place individual tool icons (ones that do not require clicking on the triangle) anywhere you want in the panel. For the tool groups with triangles, you can click & hold anywhere on the tool icon -- it does not have to be on the triangle -- but if you want to expand it to show all the tools in the group without waiting you have to click directly on the triangle itself. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Granddaddy Posted November 23, 2021 Posted November 23, 2021 On Windows you have three ways to expand the tool icons that have a white arrow in the lower right corner: 1.) Left-click on the white arrow. You do NOT need to click and hold. 2.) Right click anywhere on the icon, which is easier than trying to click the tiny white arrow, especially on hi-res monitors. Again, you do NOT need to click and hold. 3.) Left-click-and hold anywhere on the icon. In all three cases, you can release the mouse button and the list of tools will continue to be displayed until you click one of them or click somewhere else. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.5 (MSI) and 1.10.6; Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 (MSI) and 1.10.6. Windows 10 Home x64 version 22H2. Dell XPS 8940, 64 GB Ram, Intel Core i7-11700K @ 3.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
R C-R Posted November 23, 2021 Posted November 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, Granddaddy said: 2.) Right click anywhere on the icon, which is easier than trying to click the tiny white arrow, especially on hi-res monitors. Again, you do NOT need to click and hold. FWIW, right-click does not work for this in the Mac versions. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Michael Romeo Posted November 23, 2021 Author Posted November 23, 2021 Thanks for your help. Now if they make the tool icons larger it will be perfect. Michael Quote
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