00Ghz Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I have been dealing with beta withdrawal symptoms for over 2 months now. Everyday I come here hoping that the cats feed my addiction again. I am desperate, internet please help me. What should I do? :D predick 1 UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 It is not a rumour: Serif will launch a medical app soon. :D Get well. I have been dealing with beta withdrawal symptoms for over 2 months now. Everyday I come here hoping that the cats feed my addiction again. I am desperate, internet please help me. What should I do? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 It is not a rumour: Serif will launch a medical app soon. :D Get well. I can’t... the craving for new betas is draining me of life. :D UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I can’t... the craving for new betas is draining me of life. :D This is why our secretaries are writing these funny things … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 As soon as we have tested the 1.4.2 Beta thoroughly it will be uploaded to the App Store and will become the 1.4.2 App Store version. We do not expect this to be a lengthy process, but it will not be immediate as it requires a certain amount of testing before we can responsibly push it as an update. Once this has happened we will be able to start building from our development branch and produce a 1.5 Beta for you. After re-reading this post, I am wasting my time looking for a beta, there will be a MAS release first. THEN a beta. Okay I can do this. *sigh* :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Although what I don’t get about this wait for stable beta is that before devs had no problems releasing new features. There was no wait for stable update version on app store. What changed? predick 1 UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 We used to have an auto-scrolling mechanism in DrawPlus and it never got used because it's so distracting to see the layers panel constantly flicking around as you select objects on the document... How do you know how/whether people use(d) that feature? I, for one, would very much like such functionality that it skips to and shows the object selected in the layers panel. It’s just a useless additional step in user interaction having to context-click and click another time to find the object in the panel. Perhaps make it an option in the general preferences for people to decide whether they want to use it (may even be disabled by default)? Oval, jeff and Clayton 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIPStephan Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 In FreeHand we could Alt-click away and it would select each overlapping object in succession. Fireworks has a “select behind” tool coupled with the regular select tool (which is confusingly called “Move” tool in AD) which is similar in nature. You click on an object repeatingly and it selects the object behind the currently selected one. Very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 28, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 28, 2016 You can cycle between overlapping objects in Affinity Designer pressing ⌥ (option/alt) while clicking on them on the canvas. MattP, evtonic3 and KipV 3 A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 … Five weeks later, I seem to have been proven right yet again and nailed Serif's strategy re the Windows port. So, when can we expect an IPO? ^^ Now, in all seriousness: I will indeed buy Serif stock if you do an IPO. :) predick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 15, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted March 15, 2016 … Five weeks later, I seem to have been proven right yet again and nailed Serif's strategy re the Windows port. So, when can we expect an IPO? ^^ Now, in all seriousness: I will indeed buy Serif stock if you do an IPO. :) ...and I managed to bite my tongue all that time too! ;) smallreflection, JGD and 000 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 ...and I managed to bite my tongue all that time too! ;) Ahahaha I also wondered about that, too, immediately after the official announcement… ^^ You, sir, are a great captain, as the ship didn't leak from the top at all. ;) MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonBusing Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 How about the topic of this thread: Where is Affinity 1.5 Beta? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGD Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 How about the topic of this thread: Where is Affinity 1.5 Beta? :) Well, that was answered a few posts ago… Soon-ish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonBusing Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Well, that was answered a few posts ago… Soon-ish? "a few posts ago" like "in January". At the release rate of betas we've been used to last year, this is a horrible long time ago. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 17, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted March 17, 2016 (I tried to post this last night, but the forum only allows a maximum of 20MB per upload, so I had to wait until this morning to upload to Dropbox) We've been changing a lot of things behind the scenes to enable some of the new features, so 1.5 has taken longer than we wanted, but here is a look at one of the features that should be in beta really soon: Symbols. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwwxl1w4wlo4iyp/symbols.mov?dl=0 Note that I was able to make edits to all or just one symbol by turning off Symbol-syncing momentarily and that I can detach certain aspects of each symbol, for example I can detach colour (change the colour of just one instance of the symbol) but leave the other attributes (line style, transform, etc) connected. Similarly I can add to/delete from all symbols or just one symbol in the same manner, turn on Symbol-syncing and then add to them all in the correct z-order whether or not the object I'm inserting relative-to even existed in the other instances of the symbol. Basically, we've done Symbols... but better... and all in realtime, of course... ;) Sorry you're having to wait for these developments, but the reality is that until we've completed each feature and are happy with it, we won't turn it on, so all you'd see in 1.5 is a few minor extras despite such a huge amount being different behind the scenes, so we really couldn't release it until the features were complete enough to turn on. I'm expecting maybe 2 weeks for a 1.5 beta, roughly?... Thanks, Matt [Edited to add: I just checked and it's not quite 7 weeks since I posted this thread to make everyone aware that there was going to be a delay before we could bring you 1.5... Myself and the rest of the guys have been typing feverishly all day, then every evening and at the weekends too in order to get as far as we have in that time, so it's not that we aren't trying hard to bring you things as fast as possible - the first version of Designer was nearly 4 years in the making, so things just take time! ;) We're super-excited about bringing new features to you (and us, because we use the software all the time too!) so we'll get it done asap - but we can't sacrifice quality just to release sooner...] Tatyana, MEB, 000 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herojas93 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I'm completely agree with you Matt. Maybe is your fault because Affinity team is getting used everybody to have new releases every week... ;) Your software is really one of the few that I really want to used. My main job since many years ago is make wiring diagrams, manuals, etc... That new sync symbol feature for me is amazing... Honestly guys GOOD JOB!!! MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yakk Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Hey Matt That's amazing ! Great work guys and as usual, thanks for giving us real-time updates on your products development. :D OS X 10.12 - AP 1.6.6 - AD 1.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshTeriyaki Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 So Matt, a question on a real world use case. If I were to create a button that says "Submit" for example. I could add a duplicate, detach the text and update it? Also how deep does this attribute based stuff go. In the same example, say my button has rounded corners. I have created two and the second is wider than the first to accommodate my new button text. Could I then update the corner radius on both? Also, do you see a future where you could nest symbols inside other symbols? This has been a common sketch request for some time and for a while (I think they killed it) you could do it in the beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshTeriyaki Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Oh also! This looks brilliant and thank you guys very much :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 17, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted March 17, 2016 So Matt, a question on a real world use case. If I were to create a button that says "Submit" for example. I could add a duplicate, detach the text and update it? Also how deep does this attribute based stuff go. In the same example, say my button has rounded corners. I have created two and the second is wider than the first to accommodate my new button text. Could I then update the corner radius on both? Also, do you see a future where you could nest symbols inside other symbols? This has been a common sketch request for some time and for a while (I think they killed it) you could do it in the beta. Attributes at the moment are not necessarily split into the best groups they could be, and we can tweak that over time, but in your example, 'yes' you could adjust the radius of one button's rounded corners and it affect all the others even if you'd changed the transform of one of them detached and/or its colour, blend mode etc... Nested symbols work. We want this same technology to be flexible enough to use as the best Master Page feature in any publishing application and that requires being able to use symbols within symbols. JGD, Dale, Clayton and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Great work guys. Is there going to be a visual on the UI or in the layers panel that shows the item is indeed a symbol? Just to keep track if anything else. I know in AI there is the unbreakable bounding box indicating this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Is there going to be a visual on the UI or in the layers panel that shows the item is indeed a symbol? Just to keep track if anything else. I know in AI there is the unbreakable bounding box indicating this. We will see it in some weeks and it will be a better solution. Do you think we can or should discuss/ask for something we cannot try until it is released? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 We can always ask. That's why we're here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted March 17, 2016 Author Staff Share Posted March 17, 2016 You can actually spot it in the video - a little orange marker starts to appear next to the symbol in the Layers panel. When expanded, you'll see it running down the side of everything linked in this symbol. A partially-linked object is denoted by a dotted line through that item's orange highlight, and the absence of an orange highlight means it's completely detached. It looks pretty good in practice... :) evtonic3 and vonBusing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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