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Affinity Designer Mouse and Pen Glitch for Windows


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Affinity Designer seems to treat the mouse cursor and the pen cursor as being separate. Selecting a tool and using it with the pen seems to sticky the mouse cursor to that tool's icon on the toolbar and makes the mouse unresponsive to everything within the application. I've found two ways to fix this, restart the program or clicking back on the shadowed tool icon with the pen before using the mouse again.

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Serif staff have said previously that that is a Windows restriction. One can be using the mouse, or a stylus, but not both simultaneously.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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Here it's still working as it always did, I can go from mouse to pen without any problem. I can select the pen tool with the pencil, draw a few lines, use the mouse to draw a few more and then select another tool with either the mouse or the pen. 

It's probably more a tablet driver issue. I use a Wacom CTH-470 that is many years old.

EDIT:

I just saw that you were talking about version 1, but I could use both exactly like version 2 in version 1.

-- Window 11 - 32 gb - Intel I7 - 8700 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
-- iPad Pro 2020 - 12,9 - 256 gb - Apple Pencil 2 -- iPad 9th gen 256 gb - Apple Pencil 1
-- Macbook Air 15"

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