Rectangle always with rounded corners

[RainerH]

Hello together,

since some days everytime i draw a rectangle in desinger, eithe with the rectangle tool or with the roundet corners rectangle tool, a rectangle with roundet corners is drawn. I think I've made some settings that cause this behavior, but I don'T find out where. Can anybody help?

Thank you in advance

Rainer

[loukash]

Context toolbar → "Corner" section
You may have accidentally saved the setting as your tool default (Edit → Defaults).

[RainerH]

thank you loukash, now I've tried this but now all rectangles have non rounded corners, no matter wich tool i choose.

[loukash]

With the Rectangle tool selected, click the Revert Defaults button.
Or choose Edit → Defaults → Factory Reset.

[GarryP]

2 hours ago, loukash said:

With the Rectangle tool selected, click the Revert Defaults button.

That’s not working for me on 2.3 (hey, that rhymes!) – see attached video.

[GarryP]

I think, without too much effort put into thinking it, that the Rectangle Tool should always draw new rectangles with squared corners no matter which settings were used in the Rounded Rectangle Tool or what the last rectangle was changed to use while using the Rectangle Tool.

And the Rounded Rectangle Tool should always draw new rectangles with the settings which were last drawn with that tool (unless the user has pressed “Revert Defaults”).

Otherwise what’s the point of having separate tools if they both ‘borrow’ settings from each other?

(The 'roundedness' can, of course, still be changed after the rectangle has been drawn.) 

This seems sensible to me – if I want a new non-rounded rectangle I use the Rectangle Tool rather than the Rounded Rectangle Tool.

[Callum]

Hi All,

It looks as though the default is shared between both of these tools. I have made a log with our developers to look at potentially changing this in the future.

Thanks
C

[RainerH]

Hello GarryP,

finally somebode understood what I mean. In earlier versions of Designer it worked as expected. Rectangel tool drew a rectangel and roundet rectangele tool drew a rounded rectangle. Tih must be a bug in the software.

What have we bought and payed for? A rectangle tool and a rounded rectangle tool. And what did we get? Two rectangle tools or if you change settings two roundes rectangle tools.

It's like not to get a hambburger, but either two burger buns or two Fleischpflanzerl.

That's crazy isn's it? 

[RainerH]

Hello Callum,

thank you. You are our hero of the day.

 

[PaulEC]

I just wanted to agree with this. It's pointless having two shape tools that are exactly the same! But it is quite handy to have both rectangle and rounded rectangle to save extra steps and having to keep changing one tool.

By the way, it does seem to apply to all the apps, not just Designer.

[loukash]

4 hours ago, GarryP said:

That’s not working for me

Ah, I see what you mean. Same on Mac.
I just checked v1, and indeed, v2 seems to have a bug here.

To partially work around it, disable Keep selected, otherwise the next object automatically inherits the last object's attributes while Rectangle and Rounded Rectangle obviously falsely share the same toolbar attributes

[loukash]

4 hours ago, RainerH said:

What have we bought and payed for?

No need to make a drama here. Bugs happen even in the best families…  

[Ron P.]

9 hours ago, loukash said:

I just checked v1, and indeed, v2 seems to have a bug here.

I also checked V1, and V2 (2.2.1), and V2.3. The bug only occurs in V2.3.

[RainerH]

Hello Loukash,

I think it's a drama, when a tool that worked well before is buggy after an update. Like a car I got back from the workshop where they updated the car's system-software and now I have some new features but the windshield wipers doesn't work. Are you sure you wouldn't complain to the workshop about this?

I want my different tools back ...

[Bit Disappointed]

2 hours ago, RainerH said:

Hello Loukash,

I think it's a drama, when a tool that worked well before is buggy after an update. Like a car I got back from the workshop where they updated the car's system-software and now I have some new features but the windshield wipers doesn't work. Are you sure you wouldn't complain to the workshop about this?

I want my different tools back ...

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So, the clingy, embracing correction disguised as a friendly remark should be seen in the light of the above. I don't know why these people have to stand and pass moral judgment over, for example, you, when you contact Serif Software in a way that is a condition of existence for all companies and always has been, but these actors on the internet have no authority or power here, so just ignore these posts.

May you have a creative - and square - weekend. 🙂

[RainerH]

...and an Update (2.3.0 -> 2.3.1) comes and the error is still there ...

[Aammppaa]

The v2.3.1 update was a quick release to fix a handful of critical regressions. Many more bugs have already been squashed in the v2.4 beta (though others have been introduced).

Each release specifies exactly which bugs have been fixed, so by definition anything not on the list still exists.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Rounded rectangle and standard rectangle share corner settings" (REF: AF-1628) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.4.0.2279".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.