I can't seem to use CTRL+Z anymore ! (V2 Designer)

[awakenedbyowls]

Too many times I'm clicking CTRL+Z - clicking clicking clicking and nothing is happening because I'm stuck in a text box for the opacity or something

VERY frustrating !

Why doesn't CTRL+Z just override anything I'm doing and just go back a step - that's what CTRL+Z is for - if I mistakenly CTRL+Z then I can just Shift+CTRL+Z 

A few little things with the V2 I'm finding seem to have introduced some frustration

Another one is CTRL+J when I want to copy a parent group but somehow I always seem to end up duplicating a layer within the group because things don't seem to be registering sometimes when I click on them

I'm on 2.2.1 because I don't want to update to 2.3 until I finish this design project I am on - too scared of new bugs being introduced now

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, awakenedbyowls said:

Why doesn't CTRL+Z just override anything I'm doing and just go back a step...

Is whatever thing you did that you want to undo shown as a step in the History panel? If not, then it isn't a step that has been completed & thus can't yet be undone.

[awakenedbyowls]

4 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Is whatever thing you did that you want to undo shown as a step in the History panel? If not, then it isn't a step that has been completed & thus can't yet be undone.

So why doesn't it just undo the previous step then? Maybe I want to undo several steps too

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, awakenedbyowls said:

So why doesn't it just undo the previous step then? Maybe I want to undo several steps too

I don't know, but it may become more obvious if you can post a screenshot showing whatever part of the UI has the focus when you try using CTRL-Z. For instance, is it in a text entry field, a studio panel, etc.?

[awakenedbyowls]

3 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I don't know, but it may become more obvious if you can post a screenshot showing whatever part of the UI has the focus when you try using CTRL-Z. For instance, is it in a text entry field, a studio panel, etc.?

I'll see what I can do - just feels like before CTRL+Z was a useful shortcut that was used heavily so not sure why I'm hitting dead ends with it sometimes - maybe something I'm doing but still I feel it should just overrule everything 

[R C-R]

Even if you do not have time to create & post a screenshot now, can you at least briefly mention what you were doing when it failed to work, like editing text or changing something in a Studio panel?

[awakenedbyowls]

I'm having no end of issues with both the Windows and iPad versions

Terrible lag sometimes on both - like on the iPad when I go to the home screen it's blank for a few seconds

On Windows I'm pressing A A A A and it's highlighting the nodes and then immediately unhighlighting them again

All the time I'm going through these irritating procedures to get the software to work

Could be something to do with my new RAM cards that don't seem to be working well with my set up

I also haven't updated to 2.3 on Windows yet because I'm worried it might cause issues when I have a deadline to meet

I hope 2.4 addresses some of these issues because right now I'm not impressed with V2

I'll try to elucidate further when I have time but I'm busy trying to finish a design for a deadline while working and (now) recovering from a bout of flu

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, awakenedbyowls said:

I hope 2.4 addresses some of these issues because right now I'm not impressed with V2

It's unlikely to until you have time to provide a better description of each problem, with screenshots and videos. But if you think there's any possibility that it's hardware-related (RAM, etc.) I would look at those first.

[awakenedbyowls]

I'm going to write down all these irritating design features/oversights/bugs as I find them and get back

Like this one:

Every time I open a file it opens with a default layer selected

Normally at this point when I open a file I'll hold the space bar and move the design canvas around with the left mouse button to position it correctly but the app doesn't recognise the space bar yet/at that point and moves the selected layer instead so I end up going through this same bollox every time I open a file

There are other examples like this that are really doing my head in

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, awakenedbyowls said:

I'm going to write down all these irritating design features/oversights/bugs as I find them and get back

Like this one:

Every time I open a file it opens with a default layer selected

Normally at this point when I open a file I'll hold the space bar and move the design canvas around with the left mouse button to position it correctly but the app doesn't recognise the space bar yet/at that point and moves the selected layer instead so I end up going through this same bollox every time I open a file

There are other examples like this that are really doing my head in

Rather than writing them down here, you need to post in the Feedback forum, one suggestion per topic.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, awakenedbyowls said:

Normally at this point when I open a file I'll hold the space bar and move the design canvas around with the left mouse button to position it correctly but the app doesn't recognise the space bar yet/at that point and moves the selected layer instead so I end up going through this same bollox every time I open a file

??? That does not happen for me in AD. Regardless of if a layer is selected or not holding down the spacebar switches to the View Tool.

[awakenedbyowls]

So CTRL+Z is still useless on the Windows version then - maybe even more so now.

I use CTRL+Z a lot but the last few weeks I've found that I'm trying to perform and Undo and in reality I'm just sitting there pressing CTRL+Z repeatedly and nothing is happening.

If I try and set the fill with the HSL colour wheel and I want to pick a colour, go back to the original colour and repeat until I'm happy with the colour. No, I have to click out of the HSL colour wheel to get the Undo function to work.

Same with the Opacity Box - it won't Undo until I click out of it.

So the result is I constantly with my work flow going to trash, and more than a year later the issue still persists.

Great work on the V2 development!