Recalling History requires clicking on the state to recall it (is it a bug or a feature request?)

[nickbatz]

macOS Mojave 10.14.6, Affinity Photo 1.10.5

The title is pretty much says it: you can scroll up and down the history list with the up and down arrows on the keyboard, but then you have to click on the state to get it to recall it.

If that's how it's supposed to work, then I would suggest that it should change as soon as you land on an entry in the list, just as the sliders do.

The horizontal sliders work fine, but it's hard to fine-tune from there. And if you've made 50 billon subtle changes (as I do all the time - I'm not using it to edit photos, I'm using it for art)...

TIA

 

[carl123]

As far as I am aware there is no way to do what you want using the arrow keys

But CTRL+Z (undo) and CTRL+Y (redo) will cycle through the entries in the History Panel

Is that sufficient for you?

If not, you will need to raise this as a Feature Request as I don't think it a bug more likely "as designed" (for now)

 

[nickbatz]

Well, yes, of course I know about undo/redo! That's in every program going back to the mid-'80s.

And it's a very different thing. But thanks.

A better way of articulating this request is that I'd like to be able to use the slider to get close to the historical state I want, then use a key command to step in either direction until it's in the state I'm looking for.

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, nickbatz said:

A better way of articulating this request is that I'd like to be able to use the slider to get close to the historical state I want, then use a key command to step in either direction until it's in the state I'm looking for.

That "key combination" is already available as Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, isn't it? Why not start with the slider, then switch to them?

[nickbatz]

8 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

That "key combination" is already available as Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, isn't it? Why not start with the slider, then switch to them?

Because that's a different feature and it does something different.

Sorry to be ornery, but why are the replies I always get on this forum and on Facebook groups always so basic?

I'm under no illusions that my posts are brilliant, but I don't think I come off as being so stupid that someone needs to tell me how to use a mouse (I'm not kidding, that actually happened!).

Oy gevalt!

[Old Bruce]

15 hours ago, nickbatz said:

A better way of articulating this request is that I'd like to be able to use the slider to get close to the historical state I want, then use a key command to step in either direction until it's in the state I'm looking for.

You can already do this. Try doing just that. There exists a key command to step in either direction after you get close with using the slider.

[walt.farrell]

54 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

Because that's a different feature and it does something different.

No, it does exactly what you said: if you first get "close" with the slider, you can use the key combination Ctrl+Z or Ctrl+Y to move backward and forward from that point.

 

[nickbatz]

Okay, I'm eating crow.

I take back all the huffing and puffing.

Thanks.

[Pšenda]

18 hours ago, nickbatz said:

but why are the replies I always get on this forum and on Facebook groups always so basic?

Because they are basic?

[nickbatz]

4 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Because they are basic?

They're mixed like everywhere else on the Internet.

But - while I do apologize for being an idiot here this time (okay, and maybe a couple of other times) - I plead guilty to glossing over correct and helpful answers because they got lost in the signal-to-noise ratio I was anticipating.

I'm quite serious that someone here told me how to use a mouse as a response to a question!