bagmetv Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Hi dear Affinity Developer Team, Now in Designer v2 when you do 'Convert to Curves', Move Tool is being changed to Node Tool automatically. Earlier in v1 there was no such behaviour. I do a huge amount of 'Converting to Curves' daily (without further purpose of editing nodes) and this constant switching to Node Tool hurts me workflow significantly. Is it possible to bring keeping selected Move Tool after 'Convert to Curves' back? Or at least can you please make an according control/switch in Settings for turning off this 'changing to Node Tool' behaviour after 'Convert to Curves'? Sincerely Vitalii nodeus and Affitoom 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 I have the feeling that the change was "by design". Seems logical to me. Also, I find this change actually for the better: For example with a plain rectangle in v1 you wouldn't even notice that you have converted anything because the bounding box would hide the nodes. In v2 the displayed result matches the previous action. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagmetv Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 Thanks for your reply, loukash. Yes, I saw it's documented in Help section. Of course I understand and accept this logic but I convert to curves huge amounts of text and there's no need for me in Node selection after every time. I will be happy to have a specific switch in Settings for turning this off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ash Posted January 24, 2023 Staff Share Posted January 24, 2023 Yeah it was something we had a fair amount of feedback on - that switching to node would be best after a convert to curves (as well as various other logic we have implemented around the node tool). We could give some thought as to whether a preference might make sense. Worth saying that hitting cmd-return and then V doesn't seem too terrible to quickly convert something to curves and go back to move tool, with a bit of muscle memory is pretty quick? Also to say it if you are not using short cuts then after a convert to curves double clicking outside of the object you've just converted (assuming on the background or something) should also put you back to move tool. loukash, Frozen Death Knight and Affitoom 3 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagmetv Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 Good evening, Ash. Many thanks for your time and detailed reply. The thing is my production requires doing this curving one text after another hundred and even more times every day so extra click (not talking about two clicks) each time unfortunately does makes a difference (and fatigue) in my workflow. Curving all text elements at once is not a way as I have to keep editable copy in one file too. So if it'd be possible, I will be happy to have a small dedicated switch/control/preference with the according 'No switching to Node Tool after' logic in Settings. Affitoom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 2 hours ago, bagmetv said: my production requires doing this curving one text after another hundred and even more times every day You're aware that you can convert hundreds of text objects objects with just one keyboard shortcut? No clicks necessary. 2 hours ago, bagmetv said: Curving all text elements at once is not a way as I have to keep editable copy in one file too. Select all text objects in the document (Select > Select Object > Art/Frame Text) Hide them Duplicate all, keep duplicates selected Unhide the duplicates Convert the duplicates to curves All these commands are accessible in menus, customizable via keyboard shortcuts. No click necessary. Additionally you may want to make use of named objects or layer tags for quick selection of specific objects. 2 hours ago, bagmetv said: hundred and even more times every day so extra click (not talking about two clicks) each time unfortunately does makes a difference (and fatigue) in my workflow. You should definitely get a 3rd party macro utility. On Mac, I'm using Keyboard Maestro. While Affinity apps aren't officially scriptable (yet), some script support is available out of the box via MacOS UI scripting. That involves all keyboard shortcuts or selecting menu commands, to a certain limited degree even clicking UI elements in the window. For instance, I'm often using a Keyboard Maestro macro via keyboard shortcut that will click the layer name input field for me, based on my canvas object selection, so that I can type in a name right away, without having to click anything: aff_km_macro_click_layer_name.mp4 Similar macros can speed up your repetitive workflows. Make use of such helpers! bagmetv and Pauls 2 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagmetv Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 Hi loukash, Wow, thanks a lot for your detailed reply! Sure, I'll give a Keyboard Maestro a try. loukash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 @loukash referred to this thread in my last post regarding the Corner Tool. On 1/24/2023 at 3:56 PM, Ash said: We could give some thought as to whether a preference might make sense. @Ash, I would very, very much appreciate this to be toggleable somewhere in the preferences! 👏 Especially when I'm working with the Corner Tool and need precision because I want/need to try different radii, it is very irritating for me and stops me in my tracks because I have to actively work against the automatic tool selection. I have become so used to the way it worked in previous versions that I currently see no advantage in automatically switching to the Node Tool. Maybe the option to exclude this mechanic from certain tools would be a solution? Cheers! Affitoom, bagmetv and Makaii 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affitoom Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 On 1/23/2023 at 3:24 PM, bagmetv said: Hi dear Affinity Developer Team, Now in Designer v2 when you do 'Convert to Curves', Move Tool is being changed to Node Tool automatically. Earlier in v1 there was no such behaviour. I do a huge amount of 'Converting to Curves' daily (without further purpose of editing nodes) and this constant switching to Node Tool hurts me workflow significantly. Is it possible to bring keeping selected Move Tool after 'Convert to Curves' back? Or at least can you please make an according control/switch in Settings for turning off this 'changing to Node Tool' behaviour after 'Convert to Curves'? Sincerely Vitalii I also have this same concern, and I think it would also be good if they gave the option to choose between moving to the node tool or keeping it as before (V1) in the move tool. Please consider it. Thank you bagmetv and Makaii 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makaii Posted November 16, 2023 Share Posted November 16, 2023 Bumping with the wish for toggling the corner tool to V1 behavior. It's just distruptive fighting against the automatic tool change when you regularly make designs with varied radius. I'm at the point in my workflow where I'm rounding corners, so let me just stay in the tool that lets me round corners. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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