Value fields lose focus when adjusting with cursor keys

[DarienGS]

Many tools in Affinity Photo 2 show numeric values along the top toolbar – for example, the Paint Brush Tool has settings for Width, Opacity, Flow, Hardness, Length, Stabiliser length and Symmetry.

When I click into one of these numeric fields, I can increase or decrease the value by 1 by pressing the up or down cursor key. If I hold down Shift, the value increases or decreases by 10.

Unfortunately, once I've done this once the focus vanishes from the field. If I want to reduce a value by (say) 2% I therefore have to press the down arrow, then click back into the value field before I can press down again.

This surely can't be correct behaviour. The focus ought to stay in the value field to receive multiple presses. I've searched around but can't find a previous report of this in this forum. I've confirmed that it happens in the latest stable release and in the latest beta (v2.1.0, build 1790).

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, DarienGS said:

This surely can't be correct behaviour.

This loosing focus is a major flaw. It seems to be getting worse. There has been a mention that it is going to be discussed or some such. I don't think the people at Serif/Affinity realize what a pain this is. Makes using the applications more difficult by an order of magnitude.

[GripsholmLion]

I'm fairly sure that I have read a thread or post which raised this issue in the last few days; but, of course, I can't find it now.

Rest assured that you're far from alone in being bugged by this little oddity.

I'm very much hoping that they fix this and, while they're at it, allow me to tab between the various numeric values in the tool context bar. Maybe it's supposed to work, but it doesn't for me. One tab seems to go nowhere; the next toggles the UI off! 😡

In many other areas, such as the transform palette, we can tab through values, so this is an odd inconsistency. UIs should be as consistent as possible.

[stokerg]

Hi @DarienGS,

This is an issue we already have logged with the Dev team.

I'll update that report with a link back to this thread, so we can update you when it's been resolved  

[DarienGS]

Brilliant, thanks!

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Context Toolbar value boxes loose focus after the first arrow key press" (REF: PD-636) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.2.0.1857".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.