Delimited area filling

[NonoGG]

Hello community,

I miss the possibility to fill areas. And by that I mean without much effort. I realize that what I want is already solvable by workarounds. But I don't want (especially with more complex shapes) to always have to use workarounds. Inkscape offers a tool that automatically detects surfaces and creates a new closed curve with fill color with one click. When I first started working with Affinity Designer, I was hooked. Then when it came to coloring what I had drawn it felt almost impossible for me....

Dear Affinity Team... please add the ability to detect closed areas and fill them. 

Greetings Nono

[fde101]

This appears to be a duplicate of those threads which are asking for a "Shape Builder" tool.

[Old Bruce]

7 hours ago, fde101 said:

This appears to be a duplicate of those threads which are asking for a "Shape Builder" tool.

Not really, this is about colouring areas. There is some software which will allow me to fill only the top half of the yellow ellipse with a third colour (or the pink colour).

[fde101]

5 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

There is some software which will allow me to fill only the top half of the yellow ellipse with a third colour

Yes, if I use that tool in Inkscape, it works by adding a new object which is the shape of the filled area, and setting its fill color to match.

If that shape were then cut out of the original, would that not in effect give you a shape builder tool?

This is essentially a variation of the shape builder, which adds the area as a new shape on top instead of breaking the old one, and which sets the fill color in the same operation...  so to implement this wouldn't be all that different from implementing the shape builder?