show "dynamic guides" between artboards when holding cmd/ctrl (& when hovering over the layers panel)

[thedivclass]

• Currently, you can't trigger the "dynamic guides" to show between artboards when selecting one and holding cmd/ctrl and hovering over another. I would love that to change. At the moment, they only show automatically when moving the artboard, they can't be triggered manually as with all other layers.

 

• It would also be great if we could trigger "dynamic guides" between the selected "source" layer/object and a layer/object we hover over in the layers panel (rather than on the canvas). This would be extremely helpful when the canvas gets a little busy. 

 

thanks

[fde101]

13 hours ago, thedivclass said:

Currently, you can't trigger the "dynamic guides" to show between artboards when selecting one and holding cmd/ctrl and hovering over another

While I see no problem with this request, out of curiosity, why would you find it useful?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, fde101 said:

why would you find it useful?

I hit this the other day. You might want to manually align two Artboards, or draw another Artboard the same height as a neighboring one.

[fde101]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You might want to manually align two Artboards

This already seems to work as the guides already appear when moving the artboards.  The guides being requested seem to be more for comparison/analysis purposes, and that is where I am a bit lost, as they export largely independently of each other, so I'm not sure what the benefit of that would be.

[thedivclass]

Mostly habit & peace of mind. I'm very used to this behaviour in other software (e.g. Figma) and often find myself looking to check alignment between artboards mostly out of habit & being pernickety about document structure. Obviously, this request is more of a luxury than a "necessity" in Affinity.