Rulers & Guidelines ...

[johndmoulton]

Please consider:
1)The ability to drag guidelines from the ruler without having to leave the current tool in use to use the Move Tool. Just hover over the ruler bar then drag and drop.

2) I'm working at the center of a large image and want to delete a guideline. It would be nice to be able to move that guideline over EITHER the vertical or horizontal ruler bar to delete it without having to move/shrink my image to drop the guideline into grey/black space'.

[walt.farrell]

31 minutes ago, johndmoulton said:

1)The ability to drag guidelines from the ruler without having to leave the current tool in use to use the Move Tool. Just hover over the ruler bar then drag and drop.

Most Tools can be used to drag a Guide from the rulers. Only a few can't, in my experience.

[debraspicher]

1 hour ago, johndmoulton said:

Please consider:
1)The ability to drag guidelines from the ruler without having to leave the current tool in use to use the Move Tool. Just hover over the ruler bar then drag and drop.

2) I'm working at the center of a large image and want to delete a guideline. It would be nice to be able to move that guideline over EITHER the vertical or horizontal ruler bar to delete it without having to move/shrink my image to drop the guideline into grey/black space'.

Alt(Opt?) + click can be used to delete guides now if you are busy in the center of your canvas.

[Hangman]

14 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Most Tools can be used to drag a Guide from the rulers. Only a few can't, in my experience.

While this is indeed the case with a few exceptions, the issue is that with any other tool selected you are unable to move guides, you can only move them with the Move tool selected, though as @debraspicher mentions, the latest beta now permits Alt (Option) Click to delete guides which should hopefully remedy issues like the one mentioned by @johndmoulton

[walt.farrell]

28 minutes ago, Hangman said:

the issue is that with any other tool selected you are unable to move guides,

The OP's request was to be able to create the Guides, not to move them after the fact, so that is what I responded to.

[Hangman]

52 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

The OP's request was to be able to create the Guides, not to move them after the fact, so that is what I responded to.

My interpretation (rightly or wrongly) based on both points combined was that

1. When using any tool they want to be able to drag a new guide onto the canvas, which as everyone has mentioned is already possible.
    
2. When working at the centre of a large image (my interpretation on that is, when zoomed in to a large image) they want to be able to move and delete guides while using whatever current tool they have selected, whether the Pen tool, the Node tool and so on which is the bit that isn't currently possible in the retail version (2.0.4). The logic being that the only way to delete a guide, without invoking the Guides Manager, is to drag it to its respective ruler but you can't do so if you have any tool other than the Move tool selected.

I could of course be completely wrong about the intention here and of course with the new functionality in .1713/.1714, the problem is helped in part by having the ability to Alt/Option Click to delete guides, though you still have to have the Move tool selected to do so which means it perhaps doesn't completely solve the issue if I've understood it correctly...

I guess you can use 'V' to invoke the Move tool, then Alt Click a guide to delete it then hit 'V' again to revert back to the original tool but it's a little cumbersome...

[Seneca]

33 minutes ago, Hangman said:

I guess you can use 'V' to invoke the Move tool, then Alt Click a guide to delete it then hit 'V' again to revert back to the original tool but it's a little cumbersome...

I suggested to have the Command Key press to temporarily switch to the pointer tool a while back. That's how inDesign works and I find it very handy. When you let go of the command key then you are back to the tool you had before.

The answer I got was that the majority of the tools in the Affinity Suite change into drag tool when you hover over the frame of an object. That is true but that doesn't solve all the cases. Command press switch would solve all the problems raised here and elsewhere.

[Hangman]

1 minute ago, Seneca said:

I suggested to have the Command Key press to temporarily switch to the pointer tool a while back. That's how inDesign works and I find it very handy. When you let go of the command key then you are back to the tool you had before.

If memory serves me correctly that's how it works, or used to work, across Adobe's software (at least for Illustrator, Photoshop and likely After Effects I think) and is exactly how it should ideally work here as that would then allow Cmd to change temporarily to the Move tool and with the addition of Alt allow you to click a guide to delete it, release both keys and you're back with your tool of choice though I'm trying to think what else (if anything) Cmd Alt already does in certain circumstances...