Quake72 Posted November 29, 2021 Posted November 29, 2021 Novice question: While using Affinity Designer and opening a new file, the artboard starts to move horizontal to the right when I place the cursor inside the viewport and then stops halfway out of site. If I during this movement places the cursor outside the window/viewport it stops. Have I managed to change any settings or is this something that can be fixed? Quote
Staff MEB Posted November 29, 2021 Staff Posted November 29, 2021 Hi @Quake72, Welcome to Affinity Forums What OS are you running? Do you have any other input devices connected to your system besides the mouse? A tablet/pen, a Surface dial and similar input devices? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Quake72 Posted November 29, 2021 Author Posted November 29, 2021 Hi @MEB Thanks, I "rebooted" my wireless mouse, and it worked. Never happened to me before I do have a 3D mouse that, from time to time make some problems when something’s leaning against the mouse. Thanks again. Quote
Staff MEB Posted November 30, 2021 Staff Posted November 30, 2021 Hi @Quake72, I'm glad to know you've sorted it out. We had two other customers reporting similar issues this week so i was afraid something else was going on. Happy to know it was indeed a casual glitch. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Gulek Kandirali Posted December 6, 2021 Posted December 6, 2021 When cursor is in or out of the artboard, artboard is moving left or right or up or down according to my finger movement. I checked out preferences, couldn't find any solution. Where do I make mistake. The computer is iMac M1 2021 and the OS is 12.0.1 Quote
Old Bruce Posted December 7, 2021 Posted December 7, 2021 15 hours ago, Gulek Kandirali said: When cursor is in or out of the artboard, artboard is moving left or right or up or down according to my finger movement. I checked out preferences, couldn't find any solution. This sounds like you are panning the canvas. The space bar is the temporary selector for this, the H key the tool shortcut. 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.
Gulek Kandirali Posted December 7, 2021 Posted December 7, 2021 I need stable artboard. Working is not easy with moving artboard. I used AI for 17 years and never lived problem like this. When my finger touches to the Magic Mouse, artboard becomes uncontrollable. Quote
R C-R Posted December 7, 2021 Posted December 7, 2021 6 hours ago, Gulek Kandirali said: When my finger touches to the Magic Mouse, artboard becomes uncontrollable. That is because the touch surface on the Magic Mouse is very sensitive to movements, so if your finger slides even a tiny amount when you try to click it will be interpreted as your wanting to scroll in the window. My advice is to either use something other than that Mouse or be very, very careful not to let your finger slide when you touch the surface of the mouse unless you want to scroll in the window. 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
Staff MEB Posted December 9, 2021 Staff Posted December 9, 2021 Hi @Gulek Kandirali, Welcome to Affinity Forums There's no way to turn this off. With a regular scroll-wheel mouse it doesn't pan the canvas (in case you are considering it). In any case i suggest you keep using it a bit more. In the beginning it takes a bit to get used to (I went through the same frustration as you) but it the long run it ends up being helpful and more easy to navigate the document than it looks at first. You may end up liking it more than you think but it it does take some time to adapt to this behaviour. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
Gulek Kandirali Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 Hi MEB.. thank you for sharing your experience. So looks like that I gotta keep trying with patience. Quote
R C-R Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 4 hours ago, MEB said: You may end up liking it more than you think but it it does take some time to adapt to this behaviour. Personally, I never was able to adapt to this behavior. What I noticed after trying to do that for a while was that keeping my finger raised off the touch sensitive mouse surface for an extended period of time put enough stress on my hand that it was beginning to become painful, so I stopped using a Magic Mouse for anything, not just with the Affinity apps. 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
Old Bruce Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 I have said it before and I will say it now. Apple has never made a decent mouse. Not ever. They are all [expletive deleted]. 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.
R C-R Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 13 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I have said it before and I will say it now. Apple has never made a decent mouse. Not ever. They are all [expletive deleted]. The worst ever was the old round 'hockey puck' one back from the System 7 era. Since it was round, you had to be careful how you had it oriented every time you grabbed it -- you could not do that by feel alone -- so if you did not have it aligned with its 'north' end pointing directly away from you, moving the pointer would move it at an unexpected angle. The later mouse with the little round roller ball button used to control 2 way scrolling was OK until grime got wedged in under the ball. Then it either quit working completely or worked erratically. Apple's "fix" for this was to rub the mouse briskly on your clothing with the ball side down, which was supposed to dislodge the grime & remove it. That worked sometimes; other times not. 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
Old Bruce Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 14 minutes ago, R C-R said: the old round 'hockey puck' one back from the System 7 era Came with the original iMac. So I think after system 7, I do recall running system 8.6 on it and 9 and eventually one of the early cat OS Xs. Apparently Steve Jobs was actually proud of that useless round piece of [expletive deleted]. It is part of the reason I first bought a Wacom tablet. 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.
R C-R Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 1 minute ago, Old Bruce said: Apparently Steve Jobs was actually proud of that useless round piece of [expletive deleted]. He also famously insisted for years that a mouse should have only one button because having more than one would confuse users! That's why originally the OS had to implement a CMD-click as a right-click substitute. These days, CMD-click & right-click are generally implemented as two different actions but that still confuses some longtime Mac users. Old Bruce 1 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
Old Bruce Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 I think you mean Control Click not Command Click. I could be wrong. My Mac+ days are long passed so I don't know for certain if the ADB keyboard had a control key on it. R C-R 1 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.
R C-R Posted December 9, 2021 Posted December 9, 2021 3 hours ago, Old Bruce said: I think you mean Control Click not Command Click. Maybe so. I really don't remember which it was. 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
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