Designer 2: can I align multiple objects with 1 being fixed in place?

[laurent32]

Something strange ?

The grey icon doesn't stay active…

[loukash]

2 minutes ago, laurent32 said:

The grey icon doesn't stay active…

There are several such UI glitches with the Light UI mode.

[laurent32]

30 minutes ago, ,,, said:

Found it. Selecting the key object by opt+clicking on canvas is not possible when 'Allow selection to consider items inside a group' is enabled. Smells like a bug to me.

True, the problem is that :

Since we cannot see the status of that button  because it doens't stay grey when it is active, we don't know if we can use or not the "option + select" method.

And as @,,, says, is it "normal" to be able (or not) to use that "option + select" method because of that option ? Is that a bug ?

[lepr]

5 minutes ago, laurent32 said:

Since we cannot see the status of that button  because it doens't stay grey when it is active [...]

For me using the app's dark UI, the button background is darker when enabled.

7 minutes ago, laurent32 said:

And as @,,, says, is it "normal" not to be able (or not) to use that "option + select" method because of that option ? Is that a bug ?

To be clear, my opinion is that the status of that option should not prevent opt+click from being effective in the document view, and I've now reported it as a bug:

 

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, ,,, said:

Found it. Selecting the key object by opt+clicking on canvas is not possible when 'Allow selection to consider items inside a group' is enabled. Smells like a bug to me.

I agree that's a bug, plus I think it is a bug that it works only with alignment menu commands & not with the Alignment options on the Toolbar.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, ,,, said:

For me using the app's dark UI, the button background is darker when enabled.

It is for me as well, but (like several other places in the UI) there is no detectable difference between enabled & disabled when using the Light UI.

The developers still do not seem to understand the importance of making the differences between enabled & disabled or selected & unselected very obvious & easy to tell at a glance what state they are in! Grrr!

[lepr]

48 minutes ago, R C-R said:

[...] I think it is a bug that it works only with alignment menu commands & not with the Alignment options on the Toolbar.

Maybe I misunderstand you, but toolbar alignments do make use of the key object, and the alignment popup of the main toolbar considers the key object to be the 'first selected' regardless of when it was selected.

[R C-R]

52 minutes ago, ,,, said:

Maybe I misunderstand you, but toolbar alignments do make use of the key object, and the alignment popup of the main toolbar considers the key object to be the 'first selected' regardless of when it was selected.

Weird. It is working for me now but it did not seem to an hour ago. Probably user error on my part.

[DWright]

In the latest Affinity Designer 2 beta version this context toolbar has been changed is it possible for you to download this version and let me know if on your Mac you are still having issues.