Staff Ash Posted January 3, 2024 Staff Posted January 3, 2024 Apps: All Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad While transforming any object with the move tool (whether resizing, rotating, skewing or moving) you can now hold space to temporarily toggle Lock Children on or off (to achieve the opposite behaviour of what you currently have set in the context toolbar). Aammppaa, aleale1, Michail and 29 others 25 7 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2
pruus Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 Need some practice, but a useful addition. Great. Dazmondo77 and debraspicher 2 Quote
Rudantu Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 Oooooh yes. I am the target audience for this one. Awesome Dazmondo77 1 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer
loukash Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 On 1/3/2024 at 11:26 AM, Ash said: hold space to temporarily toggle Lock Children on or off Brilliant solution! SKT7, Dazmondo77 and debraspicher 3 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
dominik Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 On 1/3/2024 at 11:26 AM, Ash said: you can now hold space to temporarily toggle Lock Children on or off (to achieve the opposite behaviour of what you currently have set in the context toolbar) A very handy and clever solution to reach a checkbox that sometimes is hidden on the far right end of the toolbar. Even without touching this checkbox. Thanks! d. Dazmondo77 1 Quote Affinity Suite on Windows (V2) and iPad (V2). Beta testing when available. Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil
aleale1 Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 Oh, great! I was looking forward to "Lock Children" command appearing in the menu, so I could assign a hotkey to it, but you did even much better!!! THANKS! Dazmondo77 1 Quote
R C-R Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 6 hours ago, pruus said: Need some practice, but a useful addition. Great. If you just start the drag & then hold down the spacebar, it works fine, & you can even toggle between the two behaviors in real time by releasing & repressing it. pruus, Dazmondo77 and aleale1 3 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Bit Disappointed Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 Thanks for this one - it's a REAL treat for those of us working with hierarchies of objects. But there doesn't seem to be a way to do this on the iPad? 😞 Sonny Sonny and ronnyb 1 1 Quote I simply no longer believe that there are any professional graphic designers here. Everything follows suit. Just everything.
Benfischer Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Very nice! Thanks Can you add a note to the effect to the status bar (where it currently says Shift to constrain to 15 degrees) so it's more discoverable? Quote
Dazmondo77 Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 BRILLIANT! This is gonna save so much wasted time 👍 Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk
debraspicher Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 I use Lock Children a lot, so this is indeed very handy. I can enjoy the benefits of Lock Children as needed without worrying too much about the state of the checkbox since I can set it to determine default behavior, which is more ideal. SKT7 1 Quote
PeterB. Posted January 14, 2024 Posted January 14, 2024 Is there any chance this bug will be fixed? Otherwise, "lock children" has very little use for me, even with the space option which is a really good idea, because I always have to deselect the object and then select it again. Otherwise the box size would no longer be correct. Quote
Henric Posted January 15, 2024 Posted January 15, 2024 Thank you! Been wating for this or a shourtcut 🤩🙏 Quote
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