Affinity Designer reset selection

[Anton Ditrikhs]

I can not reset selection. It happens from time to time. I select the move tool and click at the free space but selection don't reset, it just switchs to the next random text layer.

System Windows 11

[NathanC]

Hi @Anton Ditrikhs,

It's possible that if you clicked in what looked like a free space there was an object bounding box there, an alternate method to clear your active selection easily is the CTRL + D or Select > Deselect command rather than looking for an empty space to click.

If you click in an empty area and it selects a completely random object, if you could capture this behaviour on a screen recording that would be great. I have provided an FAQ on screen recording below. If you also have a sample file where the issue can be replicated that would also assist us in replicating the issue.

Many thanks

[Anton Ditrikhs]

Yea, it seems like there is a bounding box but it shouldn't be there. I don't see it.

If you'll look at the 2nd video that bug disapear in wireframe view. But only wireframe/outline. All others modes have this bug.

30-Sneak.afdesign

[NathanC]

Hi @Anton Ditrikhs,

Thanks for following up with your file, it looks like this is an issue specifically with the 'Daily Logo Challenge: Day 24' art text layers, artistic text layer's bounding boxes are constrained to the text content only which is why your selection appears off, however if you convert these art text layers back to text frames via Layer > Convert to Text frame the previously invisible bounding box will then appear, i've attached a screenshot of this below.

The height of the text frame is huge and extends way beyond the boundaries of your working area. This is because the frame contains a few paragraph breaks and the leading override in the Text > Character Panel is set to 17458pt!

As a result of these huge paragraph breaks, when you click below this art text it will still select them as they are a part of the text. An easy way to fix this without converting the frame to a text frame is to put your text caret at the end of the text, hold down shift and press the right arrow key ~4 times and then press delete, this then remove the huge paragraph breaks and prevent any accidental selections going forward.