thomasp Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 4 hours ago, velarde said: 1) Separate Mode in MacOS was always a little "wonky" but it worked... For some reason they didn't want to mess with it in all these years. New windows were opening behind the floating tools, windows not resizing to the new images zoom size... and such.. So in V2 I guess the "easy" solution was to just kill it... Hopefully they'll reconsider, improve their floating windows in MacOS and bring it back... Actually this was the first thing I wanted to test with the 30 day demo... 🙂 I would never have expected they would take the decisions to remove it... My take from all I'm reading here in the forums is that the Affinity applications have probably been refactored to some extent. Sounds like they are now using a new windowing toolkit or the like that may not even support the basic concepts used in separated mode. If so it was probably done to make cross-platform development easier. Affinity started out very Mac-centric, it may be that this lead to difficulties in porting to Windows and the iPad. This is just my guess btw - I haven't tried out V2 yet. But the framework not supporting separated mode would make the most sense to me as an explanation as to why the feature went away and got replaced by something that feels like an iPad-'app'-concept and the FAQ just states something along the lines of "its gone, deal with it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BartonFink Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 On 11/12/2022 at 1:29 AM, walt.farrell said: Almost no one in the forums was admitting using it, let alone saying how much they liked it and how much it helped them; and Almost every time someone asked a question where Separated Mode could be the answer, and we suggested it, they complained about it; and They had a different method on Windows which most people seemed to like. I think it was simply a matter of course that the separate mode existed and that it was more than useful for professional users. Why praise something that Mac users take for granted? It was simply a big mistake to abolish it. deeds, PaoloT and Dazmondo77 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 I have finally created a solution to the problem in v1 where new documents open behind the tools. If you're interested in what I describe below, holler and I'll go into detail. Installed a Mac automation tool called Hammerspoon. Solid, dependable, free, tiny. Then created a function [open/focus Photo, create a new document, and then move it to the correct monitor and adjust screen settings] and gave it a hotkey. A few little kinks to work out for edge cases, but overall, works as I hoped and solves this problem for me. Now if I could just fix the broken tab order in the Transform dialog . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM Is there any possibility separated mode will ever return? PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted Thursday at 10:48 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:48 PM I find incredibly annoying having to continually displace windows to alternate between showing tools and showing the documents behind the foreground one. A really odd way of working. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Now, we know that, for some reason, separate mode is not possible even on the Mac. But then, please someone explain me this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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