Can't auto scroll layers in Affinity Designer 2

[Cobra Commander]

I can no longer auto scroll layers when trying to move a layer in the layers panel. It just stopped working all of a sudden. Resetting Designer doesn't work. Also Auto Scroll is turned ON. Apparently in V1 there was an auto scroll option in settings, but in V2 that option has been removed. I've seen this topic addressed before, but no resolution yet.

 

 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Cobra Commander

The “Auto-scroll” option you are referring to is used to auto-scroll the Layers Panel to show the layer which has been selected on the canvas, and is still there in V2 (as can be seen in your video).

What is happening in your video seems to be related to something else, but I don’t know what and I cannot replicate it.
Sometimes, after dragging lots of layers, I get a very apparent slow-down (fixable by a re-launch of the application) but I’ve not been able to get into a situation where I cannot scroll the Layers Panel at all while dragging a layer.

The problem seems to be similar to this issue from a while back: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/163166-layers-stack-suddenly-stopped-moving-when-repositioning-layers/

Can you try dragging the Layers Panel out of the Panel Group, so it’s a non-docked panel on its own (you can put it back later), and then do what you are doing? Does that make a difference?

[Cobra Commander]

9 hours ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forums @Cobra Commander

The “Auto-scroll” option you are referring to is used to auto-scroll the Layers Panel to show the layer which has been selected on the canvas, and is still there in V2 (as can be seen in your video).

What is happening in your video seems to be related to something else, but I don’t know what and I cannot replicate it.
Sometimes, after dragging lots of layers, I get a very apparent slow-down (fixable by a re-launch of the application) but I’ve not been able to get into a situation where I cannot scroll the Layers Panel at all while dragging a layer.

The problem seems to be similar to this issue from a while back: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/163166-layers-stack-suddenly-stopped-moving-when-repositioning-layers/

Can you try dragging the Layers Panel out of the Panel Group, so it’s a non-docked panel on its own (you can put it back later), and then do what you are doing? Does that make a difference?

Thanks for the reply, yeah dragging the layers panel out of the panel group didn't change anything. I eventually had to restart my PC and it seemingly has worked....for now lol

[GarryP]

Thanks for trying (I didn’t know if it would do anything but it was worth having a go, just in case).
Good to know that the software is working again after the restart.
It would be interesting to know if there were a replicable workflow which made the problem happen again in a consistent manner.

[MmmMaarten]

Confirmed here. I'm having the exact same issue here (layers list doesn't auto-scroll while drag'n'moving layers to before or after the visible part of the list) and was about to open a new thread until I saw this one.

Working on a powerful machine here in a simple file so definitely not a speed issue. Undocking the layers panel doesn't fix it. Neither does restarting Designer. Auto-scroll is 'just' not working.

Never had this issue before in v1, so I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with the v1 issue thread. I'm not 100% sure if this was working before in v2 or not, but I never encountered this before in v2 until today.

Using Affinity Designer 2.1.1. Windows 11 Pro.

Please see video below.
 

 

 

[GarryP]

57 minutes ago, MmmMaarten said:

Also auto-scroll is turned on. Auto-scroll is 'just' not working.

What I’m seeing in your video isn’t to do with Auto-scroll.

As I mentioned above, to the other user:

On 9/7/2023 at 9:16 AM, GarryP said:

The “Auto-scroll” option you are referring to is used to auto-scroll the Layers Panel to show the layer which has been selected on the canvas

...it's not about scrolling the Layers Panel when you are dragging layers around in it.

The problem you and the other user are getting is caused by something different (although internally it might have something to do with it, I don't know).

[MmmMaarten]

Thanks for your response and correction. I get what you're saying and understand these are two different things and edited my post. However, it's still automatic scrolling that's not working, so it makes sense we call it that. Long story short, no matter the naming; we expect it to auto-scroll when we drag'n'move layers around (as it did before) and it doesn't. Which makes it a pain to move layers around now as we need to drag'n'move several times and manually scroll the list a little further each time, only to move items through a long list 

Hope Serif will fix this for the upcoming 2.2 version as it should be very high in priority to have a working layers UI IMO.

[GarryP]

I can see how it could be annoying, especially when the Layers Panel is ‘busy’ – all that drag+scroll+drag+scroll+where’s-it-gone-etc.

It’s not happened to me yet (fingers crossed, touch wood) and I hope it’s fixed before I have the misfortune to come across it.

(I wonder if it’s only happening to Windows users.)