Drag tool?

[ygoe]

Hello,

I've finally installed the version 2 of all apps on a secondary computer to try them out. First thing I was missing is a drag tool. That device has a touch screen but it only accepts selection input, not drag the view. Touching and sliding with two fingers can only zoom (pinch gesture) but not drag. Two-finger-dragging only works either horizontally or vertically on the touchpad, not the screen. So I was looking for a drag tool that would allow me to drag and pan the viewport. In version 1 we had this hand icon in the toolbar:

I can't find anything like it in version 2. Was it forgotten or is there now a secret hidden way to drag the view?

Also, the toolbar's tooltips (the text labels that appear when hovering a button with the mouse cursor) are placed underneath the mouse cursor. That makes them unreadable (at least the first 2 letters) when moving the mouse pointer over them from top to bottom. When moving from bottom to top, the tooltips are often below the cursor, so they can be read.

Tested with Affinity Designer 2.0.3 on Windows 10.

[MikeTO]

42 minutes ago, ygoe said:

I've finally installed the version 2 of all apps on a secondary computer to try them out. First thing I was missing is a drag tool. That device has a touch screen but it only accepts selection input, not drag the view. Touching and sliding with two fingers can only zoom (pinch gesture) but not drag. Two-finger-dragging only works either horizontally or vertically on the touchpad, not the screen. So I was looking for a drag tool that would allow me to drag and pan the viewport. In version 1 we had this hand icon in the toolbar:

I can't find anything like it in version 2. Was it forgotten or is there now a secret hidden way to drag the view?

Hi, the tool you're referring to is known as the View tool. It's often stacked with the Zoom tool so look for that in Tools. If you still don't find it, choose View > Customise Tools.

Cheers