Affinity Photo — bad behaviour in Select Bottom Layer / Select Top Layer

[bbrother]

App: APh version 2.3.1
OS: Windows 10 Pro (22H2 compilation 19045.3930)
Hardware Acceleration: OFF

The problem(bug): 

Create 5 rectangles.

Problem 1:

1. Click on the top/ first rectangle in Layers Panel.
2. Menu → Select → Select Bottom Layer.
3. Press Shift and click on the first rectangle in Layers Panel.
4. All rectangles/layers should be selected, because of holding down Shift key, but only first rectangle is selected in the Layers Panel.

The same happens with Menu → Select → Select Top Layer.

1. Click on the bottom/last rectangle in Layers Panel.
2. Menu → Select → Select Top Layer.
3. Press Shift and click on the last rectangle in Layers Panel.
4. All rectangles/layers should be selected, but but only last rectangle is selected in the Layers Panel.

Problem 2:

1. Click on the top/first rectangle in Layers Panel.
2. Menu → Select → Select Bottom Layer.
3. Press Shift and click the third rectangle (from top) in Layers Panel.
4. In the Layers panel, the last three rectangles (from bottom) should be selected, but unfortunately the first three (from top) rectangles are selected.

The same happens with Menu → Select → Select Top Layer.

1. Click on the bottom/last rectangle in Layers Panel.
2. Menu → Select → Select Top Layer.
3. Press Shift and click the third  rectangle (from top) in Layers Panel.
4. In the Layers panel, the first three (from top) rectangles should be selected, but unfortunately the last three (from bottom) rectangles are selected.

The app selects the wrong layer to start iterating from (moving down in the layer stack), when selecting layers from the Layers panel in those described situations.

[Dan C]

Hi bbrother, 

Thanks for this information, i've logged this as a bug.

Lee