Lineguage Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 (edited) The space bar stopped working in Affinity - both Designer @ Photo. What can I do to correct this error? I can insert a space if I press SHIFT and hold it down and then hit the space bar. Any suggestions? Edited December 5, 2022 by Lineguage Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 What version of the Affinity apps are you running, and what release of macOS? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
MikeTO Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 You may have assigned Space as a keyboard shortcut. Go to Preferences > Shortcuts and choose Text Input from the second list. Scroll down and look for a shortcut with Space assigned to it. I tested this, assigning Space to one of the Text Input commands and after doing so I was unable to type a space in Affinity. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.5, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
h_d Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 Does the space bar work correctly in other, non-Affinity apps? If not, and you're using one of a number of specific laptop models, then you might be eligible for Apple's keyboard replacement program. About a year ago I had problems with characters repeating or not appearing on my MBP 15" and the keyboard was replaced quickly and free of charge by an authorised service provider. Probably not the most likely explanation, but you never know... Quote Affinity Photo 2.6.3, Affinity Designer 2.6.3 Affinity Publisher 2.6.3, Mac OSX 15.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.
Lineguage Posted December 5, 2022 Author Posted December 5, 2022 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: What version of the Affinity apps are you running, and what release of macOS? Version 2 for all Affinity and V 12.6.1 for Mac walt.farrell 1 Quote
Lineguage Posted December 5, 2022 Author Posted December 5, 2022 I have been running Affinity V2 since release with no problems. Not getting a space when the space bar is touched in Affinity just started this am. Quote
Lineguage Posted December 5, 2022 Author Posted December 5, 2022 Space Bar works in ALL other applications on Mac . . . . Quote
Lineguage Posted December 7, 2022 Author Posted December 7, 2022 Found solution to the space bar not working in Affinity. I, for reasons unknown, had turned on ENABLE FULL KEYBOARD ACCESS in System Preferences, Accessibility, Keyboard, Navigation . . .. shame on me. When I unchecked it, wala, all became well in the world again 😊. Thanx for all who helped!! MikeTO and walt.farrell 2 Quote
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