Switching between documents with different units shows wrong units in Text Frame > Columns

[MikeTO]

1. Create a document and draw a text frame.
2. Create another document but set the units to a different system. Draw a text frame.
3. Open the text frame panel and expand the General and Columns section - the units will be correct.
4. Switch to the first document - the units for Columns will be incorrect - the measurements will be correct, they're just in the wrong units. General will be correct.
5. Type a character in the frame - the units in Columns will be corrected.

A second issue, and maybe more important, is that typing a character updates Text Frame > Columns. It doesn't seem like it should need to update the panel each time you type a character into a frame.

Edited September 8, 2023 by MikeTO
Corrected title

[walt.farrell]

Your topic title feels a bit garbled, so you might want to review it

I think you omitted at least one word, giving the impression of poor grammar, and that you're complaining that it doesn't use the wrong units

[MikeTO]

30 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Your topic title feels a bit garbled, so you might want to review it

I think you omitted at least one word, giving the impression of poor grammar, and that you're complaining that it doesn't use the wrong units

Wow, that was really, really bad, thanks for letting me know. 🙂 

In my defence, I think it was just the old overtyping bug for this forum on macOS. This isn't Affinity's fault but Invision's. Sometimes if we select a few words and then type a replacement word it doesn't delete the selected words. I've been tripped up by this hundreds of times on this forum and many times have clicked submit before I noticed and then had to edit my post.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @MikeTO!

I've logged this with our development team and also noted the fact this value is updated on each character type, to be investigated further.

Interestingly, this issue does not seem to occur on Windows - as the UI updates correctly for me simply when switching document tabs.

I hope this helps

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, Dan C said:

I've logged this with our development team and also noted the fact this value is updated on each character type, to be investigated further.

Interestingly, this issue does not seem to occur on Windows - as the UI updates correctly for me simply when switching document tabs.

It's incredibly minor, I can't imagine too many people are working with multiple documents with different measurement systems at the same time. 🙂

I thought it was more concerning that the units refreshed when I typed a character.

[Oufti]

11 hours ago, MikeTO said:

I can't imagine too many people are working with multiple documents with different measurement systems at the same time.

Well, I commonly use documents set in points or picas or inches (i.e. 72 points, 6 picas) for layout or typography works and others set in mm for design or images (as these are the common units I've learned from school). And I imagine a time will come where I will also specifically design things for screen use, thus set in pixels… 

So I appreciate your feedback. 👍 — Even if I don't use often the Text frame columns…  (but I could!)😄

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "[macOS] Text Frame > Columns doesn't update Units correctly when switching between multiple open documents" (REF: AF-310) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.3.0.2083".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
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