Layers messed up resulting in hard crash Affinity Designer

[Bad_Wolf]

Hi all,

I am using Affinity Designer v2.2.0 on Windows 10.

I have a drawing with some container layers which contain normal object layers which can contain curves and text. When I change one of those objects in the drawing itself, it jumps out of the container layer to a position below in the layer panel.

After grouping those objects, a progress wheel appeared, and the screen became lighter. It remains the same for almost 30 minutes. Only the Task manager can close Designer.

I had this error before, but I thought it was my own doing being distracted. However, this time two other people were watching the behaviour of Affinity Designer.

Please, Affinity-Team, fix this bug because it makes the program unreliable.

Thank you for looking into my problem, which I do appreciate.

Have a great day.

Chris

 

[Bad_Wolf]

Hi all,

In the drawing, there were two artboards. One for selecting a colour in a colour scheme, the other for the artboard for the drawing itself.

I found out that the layers which were moving on their own were drawn in the drawing artboard, but in the layer panel, there were in the other "colour scheme pallet. I don't know how this was possible. However, 30 minutes before it happens, I had to move layers because they were in the wrong position in the layer panel.

At this moment, Affinity Designer is again working as expected.

But still, it seems a bug to me. When I have more time, I will try to simulate the situation again.

 

[walt.farrell]

If you move an object in the workspace such that it ends up touching or overlapping an Artboard, the object is moved into that Artboard. This is standard behavior.

[Bad_Wolf]

@walt.farrell

Thank you Walt, for your reply.

The two artboards are separated from each other. I drew the text and lines in the artboard "Website Framework". I discovered this was in the wrong position at a certain moment, so I moved the container layer to another place. I deliberately say "another position" because I think in my hurry, I moved them to the other artboard ", Colour Scheme".

So, let's assume that I moved the container layer to the "Colour Scheme" artboard. How is it possible that the drawn text and line objects were still physically on the "Website Framework" artboard? Should they not be visible on the "Colour Scheme" layer?

But for now, after I moved the container layer to its correct position (in the "Website Framework" artboard), everything works as expected and no crashes anymore.

However, Affinity Designer should not behave this way. It should warn the user that something he did is wrong.

As I have said, I will try to simulate this behaviour when I have more time.

I do appreciate your input.

Chris

[walt.farrell]

Please clarify "container layer". 

It could mean:

• Artboard layer
• Layer layer
• Group layer

[Bad_Wolf]

@walt.farrell

Hello Walt,

With "Container" layer, I mean "Group" layer. I use the "Add Layer" button in the attached image. This creates a layer where you can draw multiple objects on. I use this kind of layer a lot in my drawings.
 

Thank you again for your reply.

Chris

 

 

[walt.farrell]

27 minutes ago, Bad_Wolf said:

With "Container" layer, I mean "Group" layer. I use the "Add Layer" button in the attached image.

No, that is a Layer layer, not a Group. It's the same as doing Layer > New Layer.

You can see that in the Layers panel (which you haven't shown us).

I'm afraid that without seeing the Layers panel, to see what layout you really have, or possibly seeing the actual document, I'm not going to be able to say much more.