Question before making it a feature request

[nickbatz]

Am I right that the only way to paste picture onto a pixel layer in another picture is copy/paste?

You can't open a second picture in a tab and drag it over, right?

This is one variation of something I do all the time - never mind that I'm a walking edge case.

TIA

[François R]

43 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

You can't open a second picture in a tab and drag it over, right?

I believe you are right. 😞

This is lack of consistency since dragging a stock photo from the stock panel does allow this.

[MikeTO]

Just to make this more generic, it isn't specific to pixel layers or pictures. You cannot drag and drop any type of object from one window to another or from one Affinity app to another. You can only drag and drop from other applications to Affinity.

So I think the feature you want to request is the ability to drag and drop between document windows and between Affinity apps.

Cheers

[loukash]

2 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

Make a document screen detached/floating and drag object from the layers panel to the canvas of the second document.

On Mac, that's how it works in v1 but not in v2.

2 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

However there's always a workaround by using the assetspanel.

Hm.
What's wrong with the good ole copy'n'paste…?  

[François R]

14 hours ago, nickbatz said:

Am I right that the only way to paste picture onto a pixel layer in another picture is copy/paste?

You can't open a second picture in a tab and drag it over, right?

This is one variation of something I do all the time - never mind that I'm a walking edge case

Another customer request drowned by one-sided input.

Sometimes dragging is just the most intuitive method. On a tablet even more so. In accessibility cases required. It should be supported by software made in recent years or months.

Requiring copy paste is stepping 30+ years back in time - which is very modern in Nottingham from time to time - dragging content instead of simulating DOS workflows was introduced some 25+ years ago as an alternative. But here we are with rubbish like "this is fastest" - not always the case - and not always the customer preference.

Oh look!  Cry emojis. 😄

[loukash]

2 hours ago, François R said:

Another customer request drowned by one-sided input.

And your "constructive" contribution herein is … what again?

In other words, you are here:

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For feature requests, here's the appropriate section: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/52-feedback-suggestions

[loukash]

3 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

Reusability

Fair enough. 
Personally, I'm using a clipboard cache (via Keyboard Maestro), so I can always go dozens of clipboards back to reuse content that may be days or even weeks old. That doesn't always work with proprietary content like Affinity objects though.

[nickbatz]

1 hour ago, loukash said:

Fair enough. 
Personally, I'm using a clipboard cache (via Keyboard Maestro), so I can always go dozens of clipboards back to reuse content that may be days or even weeks old. That doesn't always work with proprietary content like Affinity objects though.

Yes, I was having drastic slowdowns copy/pasting on my new Mac Studio. Affinity’s very impressive tech support person nailed the problem with his first question.

it turned out that I’d forgotten about BetterTouchTool’s clipboard manager. Disabling that feature for Affinity Photo was all it took to solve the problem. 

[loukash]

2 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

it turned out that I’d forgotten about BetterTouchTool’s clipboard manager. Disabling that feature for Affinity Photo was all it took to solve the problem. 

I just realized that long time ago I have excluded Affinity v1 in Keyboard Maestro as well, but not Affinity v2 yet. I didn't even notice any slowdowns with v2. But then again, I'm not yet using v2 for production either, only for "toying" so far…

[nickbatz]

1 hour ago, loukash said:

I just realized that long time ago I have excluded Affinity v1 in Keyboard Maestro as well, but not Affinity v2 yet. I didn't even notice any slowdowns with v2. But then again, I'm not yet using v2 for production either, only for "toying" so far…

 

To be clear, it's only the clipboard manager feature in BetterTouchTool that needs to be turned off for Affinity Photo. That's what I'd forgotten about - I use BTT for all kinds of gesture and keyboard shortcuts all day long (although not in AP, but that may change). It's brilliant.

[loukash]

1 minute ago, nickbatz said:

To be clear, it's only the clipboard manager feature in BetterTouchTool that needs to be turned off for Affinity Photo.

Yes, same here in K.M.: it's just the "Clipboard History" that I'm excluding.
Other than that, I'm using a bunch of KM macros with Affinity to work around the lack of scripting support or for adding some missing keyboard shortcuts like "Lock Children" or "Rename Layer"…

1 hour ago, nickbatz said:

BetterTouchTool

Looks similar to KM with more focus on gestures as trigger.
I'm more the "keyboard shortcuts type"…  

[nickbatz]

35 minutes ago, loukash said:

 

Looks similar to KM with more focus on gestures as trigger.
I'm more the "keyboard shortcuts type"…  

I’m more the both type, including gestures + keyboard modifiers. 

[R C-R]

10 hours ago, loukash said:

On Mac, that's how it works in v1 but not in v2.

I think dragging from the Layers panel should work in V2 if there are at least 2 documents open and one or more of them are floated by tearing their tab(s) off from the toolbar. If I do that, the dragged layer appears in the other document with a plus sign, as if it can be dropped there, but as soon as I release the mouse button it flies back into the Layers panel of the source document.

Therefore, I think this might be a bug.

[loukash]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

I think this might be a bug.

Likely so.