Hide selection temporarily?

[LostInTranslation]

Hi,

 

often when I adjust some intricate object's transparency or FX, it is really hard to see what I am doing because of the selection bounds.
There is a button "Hide Selection while Dragging", but is there a way to temporarily hide a selection while I make adjustments?

Thanks.

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Spacebar

[thomaso]

To hide/show a pixel selection marquee: a keyboard shortcut

[LostInTranslation]

wow, that was fast.
Thank you very much!

[Oufti]

You could also have a look here:

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html#

 

— Edit: URL copied from the popup menu is https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Layers/manageLayers.html 

Thanks to @Pšenda! 

Edited September 10, 2023 by Oufti
New link.

[Pšenda]

8 hours ago, Oufti said:

You could also have a look here:

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html#

The link does not point anywhere - the front page of the Help is displayed, so it is not clear what you wanted to point to in the Help (it can be found from the text of the link, but I assume that was not its purpose).

Links to Help cannot be made by copying the address bar in the browser, but via the button in the Help menu (bottom right). And that's only if the page is displayed from the menu, not through the use of a contextual link on the page.

[LostInTranslation]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

The link does not point anywhere - the front page of the Help is displayed, so it is not clear what you wanted to point to in the Help (it can be found from the text of the link, but I assume that was not its purpose).

Links to Help cannot be made by copying the address bar in the browser, but via the button in the Help menu (bottom right). And that's only if the page is displayed from the menu, not through the use of a contextual link on the page.

Don't worry, his intention was not to help, but to show his superiority by knowing that help exists, when my question was already perfectly answered. There's always one like that.

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Links to Help cannot be made by copying the address bar in the browser,

Most often it requires / always works to 'fill' the correct, complete URL into the browser bar via right-click on the help article + choose the "Show this frame only" option …

… and then copy it from the browsers URL bar (while even then the "Copy link…" button in the lower left corner of this site doesn't work reliable).

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html?title=Arrange/Manage layers

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Most often it requires / always works to 'fill' the correct, complete URL into the browser bar via right-click on the help article + choose the "Show this frame only" option …

I right-click on the link, and copy the link address from there.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, LostInTranslation said:

his intention was not to help

I think it should be understood that to "your" topic/question may come across many "other" forum users with the same or similar problem, and then supplementing the information, i.e. not just answering the question, is much more useful. Users can thus obtain additional information, either about the problem itself or its context (embedded links in Help).

[thomaso]

14 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I right-click on the link, and copy the link address from there.

This is the problem: it may copy an incomplete link …manageLayers.html# , missing the final detail …html?title=Arrange/manage layers
(compare the URL in the screenshot in my post above with the link pasted below the screenshot)

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, thomaso said:

This is the problem: it may copy an incomplete link …manageLayers.html# , missing the final detail …html?title=Arrange/manage layers
(compare the URL in the screenshot in my post above with the link pasted below the screenshot)

That extra information is irrelevant. Both links (with or without the ?title attribute) take you to the same place and (in my experience) operate the same way.

[thomaso]

15 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

That extra information is irrelevant. Both links (with or without the ?title attribute) take you to the same place and (in my experience) operate the same way.

Interesting. So you can't experience the result reported by @Pšenda?

To me on mac the shorter URL leads me to the Designer's Help start page (blank + AD's logo) while the longer version leads me to the wanted page. – By the way, what do you get displayed as browser tab title? To me it says Affinity Photo Help with this Designer URL. (both issues in English or German).

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

Interesting. So you can't experience the result reported by @Pšenda?

No, that original URL from @Oufti is definitely wrong.

Wrong: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html#

Correct URL is https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/manageLayers.html

 Thanks for continuing this conversation. When I responded to your post, I didn't notice the difference in the earlier part of the URL. You seem to have come up with an alternate way of getting to a URL that works, but the URL is different from the ones I use.

[thomaso]

42 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Thanks for continuing this conversation.

Likewise! It is still some way confusing to me,

a.) how/what an URL on the Help site gets created with the various methods. (I assume @Oufti did not manually type the failing URL)

b.) that the same page (= displayed help article) may show different browser tab titles for the exactly same page. (I get 3 versions, one of them says "undefined")

Does not work:

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html#

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html

Does work:

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html?

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Layers/manageLayers.html?title=Arrange/manage layers

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/manageLayers.html

Note, the first three URLs differ only in the last character (# |   | ? )

[R C-R]

10 hours ago, thomaso said:

Most often it requires / always works to 'fill' the correct, complete URL into the browser bar via right-click on the help article + choose the "Show this frame only" option …

What browser are you using? I am using Safari & do not seem to have that show frame only option.

10 hours ago, thomaso said:

(while even then the "Copy link…" button in the lower left corner of this site doesn't work reliable).

For me it does unless I have clicked on one of the links at the bottom of the help page to go to another help page. If I do that, it still copies the original page link.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, R C-R said:

What browser are you using? I am using Safari & do not seem to have that show frame only option.

On Windows, Firefox has it but Chrome does not.

[Washishu]

This thread needs to be retitled "how to copy a link".