DESIGNER 2.0.4, Stroke not added when clicking ADD STROKE

[Shard]

Howdy Whomever:

I just hauled in Designer 2.0.4 and am takin it on a test run.  Unfortunately none of the vids about strokes seem to apply to 2.0.4 so it's been a challenge figuring stuff out.  STUDIO isn't where it used to be and 2.0.4 just seems to be reconfigured upgrade with some things put in different places.  However, for a noob it's frustrating as hell to watch instructional vids when the noob can execute what the educator/demonstrator wants them to do to achieve the same result the educator/demonstrator is in process of achieving.

That stated, I've finally figured out how to get the STROKE and APPEARANCE tabs made a part of the panel at the right side of the screen.   However, after adding a stroke and making it the color and thickness I want, when I click ADD STROKE nuthin happens.   Two stroke tabs don't show up in the panel.   I'll write it off to pilot error for the time being but I'm exhausted tryin to figure out this apparently EASY thing one can do. 

Thnx. 

[v_kyr]

Welcome!

Did you use the move tool and is the curve/shape selected (so is it's layer in the layers panel selected/highlighted) where you want to apply the stroke for?

You may also want to look over the ADe V2 online help which also shows and tell how certain tools work, see therefor ...

• https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html

[lepr]

10 hours ago, Shard said:

Two stroke tabs don't show up in the panel.

I guess you meant two stroke rows in Appearance panel.

The app currently will not add a second stroke or a second fill to a Text, Group or Layer, or a selection of multiple objects.

To what type of object were you trying to add a second stroke?

[Murfee]

9 minutes ago, ,,, said:

The app currently will not add a second stroke or a second fill to a Text

Unless you create a compound 😀create the text, either frame or art text, select the layer, create a compound, apply as many strokes as you want…text remains editable

[Shard]

On 2/10/2023 at 5:42 PM, v_kyr said:

Welcome!

Did you use the move tool and is the curve/shape selected (so is it's layer in the layers panel selected/highlighted) where you want to apply the stroke for?

You may also want to look over the ADe V2 online help which also shows and tell how certain tools work, see therefor ...

• https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html

Thanks, not aware of those two issues but I'll check and post my findings.  What I have done is managed to get a stroke around the original word once I've selected the layer that contains the word.  I guess my thinking was that when you select the text that activates the ADD STROKE feature.  Obviously that's incorrect.  Thanks again.

[Shard]

On 2/11/2023 at 2:39 AM, ,,, said:

I guess you meant two stroke rows in Appearance panel.

The app currently will not add a second stroke or a second fill to a Text, Group or Layer, or a selection of multiple objects.

To what type of object were you trying to add a second stroke?

Just words.  I was playin around with fonts, color schemes, bends etc.  Basically just becoming familiar with the app and what the various buttons do.   It's clearly a sequencing issue I'm overlooking or just not aware of.   Again, all the tutorial vids I've found are for an earlier version and it's frustrating that so many things have been moved around since like ver. 1.7.   Add to that the vids aren't very sharp so you can't see clearly the words and buttons people hit, especially when they move the mouse as fast as they do.  

[Shard]

On 2/10/2023 at 5:42 PM, v_kyr said:

Welcome!

Did you use the move tool and is the curve/shape selected (so is it's layer in the layers panel selected/highlighted) where you want to apply the stroke for?

You may also want to look over the ADe V2 online help which also shows and tell how certain tools work, see therefor ...

• https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/index.html

I just used the move tool to move the text.  I don't know what the curve tool is or where it's located, but I have not used CONVERT TO CURVES on the specific text.  To be clear, I'm just wanting to add multiple strokes of different colors.   I guess ADD STROKE means ADD STROKE but I guess my pea brain is to pea to understand.  It seems to me what I have to do is duplicate the word before I add a stroke, then add a stroke to the original and then a stroke to the copy. 

[v_kyr]

9 minutes ago, Shard said:

To be clear, I'm just wanting to add multiple strokes of different colors.

Then @,,, seems to be right with his guess and you might mean what the Appearence Panel offers here, namely to add multiple strokes to an object. - In past ADe V1 times it was accessable/made visable via the top menu "View->Studio->Appearence", now for V2 it may be under the "Windows" menu instead (you have to look yourself, since I don't use V2 apps yet).

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Shard said:

To be clear, I'm just wanting to add multiple strokes of different colors.
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It seems to me what I have to do is duplicate the word..

As @,,, mentioned, you cannot currently add multiole strokes (or fills) to text objects via the Appearance panel, but as @Murfee explained here you can use the workaround of creating a compound from the text object by selecting it & on the main toolbar clicking the Add button while holding down the Alt/option key. You can then add strokes and/or fills to the compound via the Appearance panel.

Note: for me I cannot use Create Compound on the Layer menu to do this, only via the option-click method, but I do not know if this is just some glitch in my copy of AD V2 or what.

[Dan C]

Apologies for the delay here - as mentioned above currently the Appearance panel is only able to adjust a singular stoke on text objects and this is expected behaviour - however creating a compound of this text object should then allow you to apply numerous strokes as required.

On 2/14/2023 at 1:00 AM, R C-R said:

Note: for me I cannot use Create Compound on the Layer menu to do this, only via the option-click method, but I do not know if this is just some glitch in my copy of AD V2 or what.

The Layer > Create Compound option requires 2 objects to be selected in order to be activated (and this works for me with 2 text objects selected), which I believe to be expected behaviour but I will be sure to double check this with the team