Affinity Photo 2.2.1 - Setting a hotkey using a numerical character makes the hotkey behave unexpectedly (see steps)

[389fe6d1]

I normally use number hotkeys for zooming and canvas rotation and the expected behaviour when changing these hotkeys is that a numerical key alone should work the same as a non-numerical or a numerical with a modifier.

1. What Application are you using? [Photo]
2. Are you using the latest release version? Yes
3. Steps I can reliably use to reproduce:
   1. Make a new document
   2. Make a new pixel layer and draw on it so there's a visual reference for scale
   3. Go to Edit->Settings->Shortcuts and change dropdown "File" to "View"; scroll down, set hotkey for "Zoom In" as 1 and set hotkey for "Zoom Out" as 2
   4. Close the settings
   5. Press 1 to zoom in or to 2 zoom out - Observe as zooming does not happen and instead an opacity slider box will have its value change as you press one of these keys. Observe that if a brush tool is being used, the brush opacity will be changed. Observe that if another tool is being used and a layer is active, the layers opacity will be changed.
   6. Note: Setting the same zoom keys to another non-numerical hotkey such as` or A works as expected and setting a numerical key with a Ctrl/Shift modifier also works as expected
4. Does it happen for a new document? Yes
5. Other information

•     Windows 10
•    Hardware acceleration ON

Edited October 29, 2023 by 389fe6d1
Wrong OS number

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

This is not a bug, except possibly in allowing you to set that shortcut key if trying to set them did not give you an error message.

The number keys (0-9) are tied to Opacity, and these built-in shortcuts cannot be changed.

Help: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/layerOpacity.html

 

[389fe6d1]

Hi @walt.farrell, thanks for having taken the time to answer this and provide the link above. I agree that if they are built-in shortcuts that cannot be changed, we shouldn't be able to use the same keys alone as hotkeys for other things and I would have preferred to not be able to set erroneous/invalid shortcuts, it would have reduced my confusion.

I'm guessing there's absolutely no way to disable this default behaviour? I'll learn to live with it and try to set something else up, it's just a particularly annoying issue for me and would rather disable the behaviour if possible.

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, 389fe6d1 said:

I'm guessing there's absolutely no way to disable this default behaviour?

No, there isn't.