Toggle lock and visibility missing

[Aurelius]

Hello,

When I open a file in Affinity 2, I see in the layers panel on the right that the panel is not complete. (Toggle visibility and lock are missing, see print screen)

When I do windows/studio/reset both toggles appear again. ( see printscreen).

But in the meantime my other settings have disappeared. Highly annoying.

How can I solve this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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[walt.farrell]

I don't have an answer. Sorry.

But, 2 requests for the future:

1. Please supply screenshots as JPG or PNG images, so we can see them directly in the forum.
2. Please let us know what OS you're using, what application (Photo 2, Designer 2, Publisher 2), and what release of the application (2.0.0, 2.0.3, etc.).

[loukash]

2 hours ago, Aurelius said:

When I open a file in Affinity 2, I see in the layers panel on the right that the panel is not complete. (Toggle visibility and lock are missing, see print screen)

When I do windows/studio/reset both toggles appear again. ( see printscreen).

I remember this bug being reported. It doesn't affect all OS versions though. I haven't seen it on Catalina yet.

[Aurelius]

 

Thanks for the replies.

I use Catalina 10.15.7

Affinity photo 2.0.3. But in the first version I already saw the problem.

 

[loukash]

2 hours ago, Aurelius said:

I use Catalina 10.15.7

It might be also hardware related.
I'm using MacBook Pro 15" mid-2012, i.e. Catalina is the latest MacOS that can run on it. 
Also, I'm always using the Light UI which may make a difference. (As the Light UI also has a plethora of issues on its own… )

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, Aurelius said:

(Toggle visibility and lock are missing, see print screen)

In V 2.0.3 on my Mac running Catalina, the toggle visibility indicator is always visible -- either as a filled in circle when visibility is enabled or an unfilled one when it is not. The unfilled circle can be hard to see due to its low contrast with the background but it is always there.

The Toggle Lock indicator always shows for me if the layer is locked but annoyingly, it disappears if the layer is unlocked unless I actually hover the pointer over its position in the layer. Then it appears as the same lock icon I would see if the layer actually was locked. That'a about the stupidest UX behavior I have ever seen in any app!

[MikeTO]

I have seen this issue once before but I fiddled with something and it resolved itself and I haven't seen it since. If you're still experiencing the problem, here are some things you can try.

• Go to Preferences and toggle from Dark mode to Light mode and back again (or vice versa)
• Go to Preferences and change from Default to Large font size and back again (or vice versa)

These toggles have a habit of resetting some things in the interface. Also try these because fiddling with the Layers panel may reset something:

• Change the width of the studio in which you have the Layers panel.
• Change the Layers panel thumbnails from Medium to Large and back again (or vice versa)

Good luck!

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, MikeTO said:

I have seen this issue once before but I fiddled with something and it resolved itself and I haven't seen it since.

Even with your suggestions to fix this, I am guessing that the stupid Lock icon behavior remains the same; IOW, that if the layer is not locked there is no 'open lock' icon to indicate that & the locked icon appears only if you hover the pointer over where it would be, right?

[Aurelius]

Thanks for all the answers.

I'll test some of the suggestions, but I'm still somewhat disappointed. In Affinity Photo 1 I never had/have this problem. So, I will continue to use the two versions side by side...

 

[GregW]

The icons used for 'locked' and 'unlocked' are idiotic. The current icon (a locked padlock) is fine. But unlocked should show an open padlock rather than subtly changing the lighting of the icon.

And I know I'm a noob at this but I would have thought that if the layer was 'locked' then I should be prevented from making changes, but I seem to be able to draw over it when locked. Very unintuitive.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, GregW said:

The current icon (a locked padlock) is fine. But unlocked should show an open padlock rather than subtly changing the lighting of the icon.

I do not see any change in the lighting for unlocked vs. locked layers in the Layers panel. For me, it is just that there is no unlock icon at all.

[Komatös]

Are we talking about the Affinity programs here? I don't see a lock icon in the layers panel either.

[R C-R]

18 minutes ago, Komatös said:

Are we talking about the Affinity programs here? I don't see a lock icon in the layers panel either.

In V2, if you lock a layer, do you see a lock icon in the Layers panel next to that layer?

[Komatös]

23 minutes ago, R C-R said:

In V2, if you lock a layer, do you see a lock icon in the Layers panel next to that layer?

Yes, I know, but only if you click on the lock right hand. You haven't seen my ironie bar. 🤣 They are invisible like the unlock lock icon.  

[Pšenda]

4 hours ago, GregW said:

And I know I'm a noob at this but I would have thought that if the layer was 'locked' then I should be prevented from making changes, but I seem to be able to draw over it when locked. Very unintuitive.

 

 

[Pete_81]

Hi @Aurelius,

Not sure if this has been solved, but I've had the same issue, spent ages looking for how to add the toggle visibility, etc on layers, but without success.

 

I eventually found a post about resetting preferences on mac - go into applications, press CTRL and click on Affinity2 icon.

Unfortunately, it deleted my macros (thankfully I have all them saved) and other settings, but did succeed in showing the toggle layers icon again!

Running OS-X Catalina (10-15) similar to you, so hopefully if you've not sorted it, then this should help!

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, Pete_81 said:

Hi @Aurelius,

Not sure if this has been solved, but I've had the same issue, spent ages looking for how to add the toggle visibility, etc on layers, but without success.

I eventually found a post about resetting preferences on mac - go into applications, press CTRL and cick on Affinity2 icon.

Unfortunately, it deleted my macros (thankfully I have all them saved) and other settings, but did succeed in showing the toggle layers icon again!

Running OS-X Catalina (10-15) similar to you, so hopefully if you've not sorted it, then this should help!

Hi, please see this thread. There are two causes and one has already been fixed in the 2.1 beta with the other still to be fixed.

 

[Aurelius]

[Ron P.]

1 hour ago, Aurelius said:

Did you forget to type your post or are you using invisible ink? 😄

[Alfred]

22 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

Did you forget to type your post or are you using invisible ink? 😄

In case you hadn’t noticed, the second half of the topic title is “visibility missing”!

[Aurelius]

Day,

In Affinity Photo 2.0.4. the problem is still present.

I do reset Studio and then they reappear, but of course that's very annoying because I can't personalize AP that way...

So, I hope in one of the next upgrades the problem will be solved?

[Pšenda]

Isn't this the well-known bug with the wide Layers panel?

[v_kyr]

28 minutes ago, Aurelius said:

So, I hope in one of the next upgrades the problem will be solved?

You're asking after this in the wrong category here, since nobody here can tell you if and when the developer who catched that bug ticket will have fixed it. So volonteers here can only speculate and thus don't tell you for sure. - Instead you have to ask that in the Affinity bugs section where that topic has been raised, in the hope that some dev there can give you more feedback about that issue and if the problems are already solved or not!

[Aurelius]

@v_kyr

I posted this topic also in the bug section, so we'll see.

Thank you.

[Arcics Gasogene]

Hi

I have the same problem of Toggle visibility with Affinity Photo V2.0.4 but it works fine with Designer and Publisher. If i work in Publisher and make a modification with Affinity Photo the "bug" disappears!!! but reappears when using Affinity Photo in standalone mode. As i note that this topic has also been declared in the bug section I hope that a corrective version will be published soon.

Macbook Pro begin 2013, MacOS Catalina (10.15.7)