VectorCat Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Soon into creating and working with this very simple file, I was unable to select the arrow objects in the drawing by using the selection tools in toolbar; I could only select them by clicking on them in the Layers Studio. Functional in the strict sense, but not productive workflow. At some point I was able to select the objects. I don’t know what made the difference, but I can tell you that between being unable to select, then being able to select, I did not power down or restart the iPad, so there was no “clearing of the decks” in that sense. The inability to select objects in a drawing is a problem I’ve experienced often, in various illustrations…some complex, some not. I’m not a software engineer, but I do know some things about these programs..that each object exists on its own layer, and has a bounding box or some sort of area which defines the space it occupies, and can therefore be manipulated. This isn’t scientific, but sometimes it feels as though the program forgets what it means when a selection tool is used to touch or marquee an object. And this is in scenarios in which the object to be selected isn’t blocked by anything else, isn’t on a locked layer, isn’t in a cropping group, is under an unlocked parent. In other words, everything seems to be set to enable that object being selected. Thank you for examining this case. selection_problems.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Initially discussed in Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Unable to recreate your issue🙁 IMG_9001.MOV Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted April 18, 2022 Author Share Posted April 18, 2022 2 hours ago, DM1 said: Unable to recreate your issue🙁 IMG_9001.MOV Thank you for taking the time to test my file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted April 19, 2022 Staff Share Posted April 19, 2022 Hi Vector Cat, I also can't seem to replicate this I'm afraid. Do you have a screen recording demonstrating this issue? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorCat Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 I am sorry but I do not. I’ll get in the habit of being ready to take a screen movie from now on. what usually happens when fails occur is that I’m fully in creative space. I look at the usual causes of whatever. But wanting to return to my work, I don’t think to grab a recording of what I want to do. I shall incorporate screen movies as part of the troubleshooting process. thank you DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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