Question about Floating Images

[brenski]

System: ♦ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 8.00 GB ram, Windows 10 home (64-bit)

I'm completely new to Affinity and looking to use it for its new Astrophotography Options.

wondering if there is a way to permanently set the application to (I don't know the specific term), have images floating freely, rather than docked. adiitionally, can the "windowed" image be set to a fixed window size?

Is it possible to have these set as defaults at startup, rather than having to manually do this every time an image is loaded?

 

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums @brenski,

There is a way, using Presets to have the UI as you want it to be when you launch AP each time.

1. Arrange your UI, float what you need to, or all, and arrange them as you want them to appear.
2. Go to View>Studio Presets. Add Preset This will be the UI layout you just set up.
3. You will be prompted to Name the Preset.
4. Once done it will continue to use this, until you change to another Preset, which you will have to create, or back to the default.

Customizing Workspace, (AP online help)

The windowed image can not be set to a fixed window size.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

here is a way, using Presets to have the UI as you want it to be when you launch AP each time.

I think that @brenski is referring to document windows (e.g.,  Window > Float...) not to the arrangement of the studio panels.

And I think that the answer to all their questions, in that context, is "no".

[brenski]

yes, my question is about Window > Float and if this can be set as a default. It's a pity that - despite (online) requests for this for quite some time, Affinity has never been updated to allow for this. It's one of the few "competition killers" that Photoshop has over Affinity. With a nice UWide monitor, it's an essential to be able to have this as a default. Having to select Window > Float each and every session is a royal PITA, and I suspect, one of the reasons why folk don't make the leap to Affinity.

For me now, without this function, I will probably only be using Affinity for its astro-stacking function - and even then only if it does a better job than Deep Sky Stacker.

Perhaps in future I'll do well to research what an app can't do, before commiting to buy. 

[carl123]

2 hours ago, brenski said:

wondering if there is a way to permanently set the application to (I don't know the specific term), have images floating freely

Edit > Preferences > General

and tick "Documents open in new floating window"

[brenski]

that's great, but is there any way to set the window size & position as a default?

[Dan C]

38 minutes ago, brenski said:

is there any way to set the window size & position as a default?

Welcome to the Affinity Forums @brenski 

Unfortunately this isn't an available option in Affinity currently, my apologies!