GreenSWOhio Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 I am running AF 2.1.1 on a Dell desktop Windows/11. I have 2 monitors, both 3840x2160. The goal is to have my workspace, that is the photo, on one monitor and all tools and panels on the other monitor. When I open a panel, it displays for a fraction of a second on top of the photo, then disappears. If I collapse the photo then I can find it "under" where the photo was. Frequently the photo panel will distort. Sometimes only half of it is displayed. I have to Alt-Space R to restore it. Looking thru the archives it seems as if similar problems were previously reported. When will Affinity address these? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardMH Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Not exactly sure what you are doing. I have two screens on a Dell desktop and if I want to do something along the lines you talk about I click New View in the View menu, Then Window->Arrange->Float and drag the image to the second monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSWOhio Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 That is unrelated to the problem I experience. I've pasted an image of my 2 screens below. I have the photo displayed on the 1st monitor for editing. And AF's control window on the 2nd monitor. I want to use some tool - maybe the Adjust Curves. So I press Ctl-M. The curves window displays briefly on the 1st monitor then disappears. To get it to display so I can work with it, I have to minimize the window on 1st monitor, move the Curves window to the 2nd monitor and Restore the window on the 1st monitor. Sometime when I restore, only half of the window on the 1st monitor is displayed. The whole process is very inconvenient. I hoped it would change when I moved from V1 to V2, but it is exactly the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Out of curiosity, when you start Affinity Photo what screen is it on? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSWOhio Posted July 1, 2023 Author Share Posted July 1, 2023 It is on the 2nd monitor. Then I pull the "window" with the photo in it out of the workspace and put it on the 1st monitor. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardMH Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 I can duplicate what you do and don't have your problem after the first adjustment. On the retail version first adjustment I open jumps screens and hides behind the image on the other screen. If I drag it back the rest are fine. On more testing the beta is the same. Work around for me is to open an adjustment before I move the image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSWOhio Posted July 1, 2023 Author Share Posted July 1, 2023 RichardMH - Our experience seems to be similar except - you did not mention AF sometimes displaying partial windows. - the work around you mention works for awhile for me, then at a seemingly random interval, another window will appear/disappear. Thanks for the insight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSWOhio Posted July 1, 2023 Author Share Posted July 1, 2023 RichardMH - I reset the User Defaults. Each new adjustment, filter or whatever opens behind the image on the 1st monitor. That is annoying. If I reuse a filter or adjustment it seems to open wherever I left it on the previous use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenSWOhio Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 Just installed AFP2 version 2.2.0. The Issue I describe above is not fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted February 12 Staff Share Posted February 12 The issue "[Win] Adjustment windows pop up behind floated documents instead of above." (REF: AF-335) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2279". 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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