Character Styles bug

[Raptosauru5]

This is not new and I kept ignoring it for a while in a hope that it will get eventually fixed with update...but maybe you do not know about it.

I have couple of Character Styles saved. I often like to apply some of the styles to different texts (Nice feature by the way! Saves a lot of time!).

Now this sometimes works and sometimes not, it seems pretty random and is very frustrating if you don't understand what is going on;

1. Sometimes it gets "locked" on one style and I have hard time switching to some other. I have to keep trying different styles until one eventually gets applied and then I can hopefully switch to the one that I actually wanted (After more observation: it seems to sometimes work if I do it quickly enough (before it gets automatically light-blue highlighted)).

2. It always shows the style preview and that preview is always correct.

3. Hovering with mouse cursor over the styles works great and fast, but there is an annoying jump when you have the moving cursor for more than 1 second and the style gets "selected" (highlighted with light blue color) and loads more parameters into the studio panel. This is a good feature (because I want to see the style settings like font, size or weight), however maybe it should only happen when the mouse cursor stops moving completely?

4. After clicking on a style, the blue-highlight will very often highlight incorrect style.

 

At first I thought I have some "corrupted Character Styles" that Affinity just does not want to apply and I did not understand why. But now it seems like it is caused by the light-blue highlighting, which triggers some more operations under the hood. Honestly, I would like to get rid of it and just show all the data previews immediately - same like it currently works with character color.

Please see the video to feel how frustrating can this become.

typeface glitch.mkv

Thanks for looking into this!  I think Affinity can become more polished software than whatever A(ss)dobe makes.

[stokerg]

Hi @Raptosauru5,

I'm trying to replicate this and struggling at the moment.

The Solid blue you see is the applied Style and then lighter blue is just showing thats the highlighted style you are previewing, so solid blue and the light blue highlight are to be expected.  It's the apply the Style but i'm having trouble with, so far it's just working.  Perhaps I don't have as many styles as you have your file, could you attach your afpub file or upload it to our Dropbox here and I'll try with your file? 

I'll keep adding Styles to my test file in the meantime and see if i can replicate it.

[Raptosauru5]

@stokerg

Thanks for your effort, parts of this bug does not happen all the time, it is a bit unpredictable.

I am struggling to find a way to export Text styles / finding the .afpub file. I am working in Designer. Is it perhaps that the .afpub is a Publisher file type?
Uploading my .afdesigner file instead. Weird light-blue highlighting happens to me immediately upon opening.

Now it does select the correct one, but you can at least maybe see the light-blue highlight taking over if you are on a text style for longer than 1 sec. Maybe it will brake for you eventually... 

Could it be somehow triggered by too aggressive scrolling with the mouse wheel?

[stokerg]

Hi @Raptosauru5,

Okay I've been able to replicate it with your file  

I'm just poking this some more, as you say, it doesn't happen every time and once I've figured out the best way to trigger it, I'll get it logged with the Developers