Feature request: make the rotating dot more visible

[nickbatz]

I don't know what this thing is called, but when you use the Move tool, it's the little dot attached to the bounding box, the thing you grab to rotate the selected layer.

Would that it were more visible so you don't have to zoom in to find it - which I find myself doing every time.

Quick - where is it in this screenshot (which is already zoomed way in)?

TIA

 

[v_kyr]

14 minutes ago, nickbatz said:

Quick - where is it in this screenshot (which is already zoomed way in)?

I call that one the rotate/skew handle!

[bbrother]

9 hours ago, nickbatz said:

I don't know what this thing is called, but when you use the Move tool, it's the little dot attached to the bounding box, the thing you grab to rotate the selected layer.

It's a rotation handle.🙄

@nickbatz There is also an option in the settings to increase the size of tool handles, which include the rotation handle.
It's available in all three apps: APh, ADe, APub.
There are 4 sizes available: (A) Small, (B) Default, (C) Medium, (D) Large.

This is what the handles will look like, including the rotation handle that you particularly care about on the canvas.

 

 

 

[GarryP]

10 hours ago, nickbatz said:

the thing you grab to rotate the selected layer.

Even if you can’t find the rotation handle you can usually rotate a layer by moving the mouse pointer a little bit to the outside of a corner handle where the pointer will change to a little curved double-arrow icon and then dragging.

In Designer you also have the Point Transform Tool which with which you can rotate layers.

[nickbatz]

7 hours ago, bbrother said:

There are 4 sizes available: (A) Small, (B) Default, (C) Medium, (D) Large.

Thanks very much, that helps a lot.

7 hours ago, GarryP said:

Even if you can’t find the rotation handle you can usually rotate a layer by moving the mouse pointer a little bit to the outside of a corner handle where the pointer will change to a little curved double-arrow icon and then dragging.

Aha! I didn't know about that. Thanks.

[Pšenda]

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/rotateShear.html

[Bit Disappointed]

On 1/23/2024 at 11:38 PM, nickbatz said:

Quick - where is it in this screenshot (which is already zoomed way in)?

Argh - you'd think that in 2024 it would be possible for a clever algorithm to market the point more visibly regardless of background.

[nickbatz]

24 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/rotateShear.html

Is your insult intentional or inadvertent?

Yes, there are features in the program I don't know about. I've been graced with many talents, but memorizing every single word of a manual for a complicated program isn't among them!

[nickbatz]

1 minute ago, Bit Arts said:

Argh - you'd think that in 2024 it would be possible for a clever algorithm to market the point more visibly regardless of background.

I'm not sure it would even require a clever algorithm, just something louder.

But the pref to make it bigger and the rotating arrows outside the corner points certainly help.

[Bit Disappointed]

Just now, nickbatz said:

I'm not sure it would even require a clever algorithm, just something louder.

But the pref to make it bigger and the rotating arrows outside the corner points certainly help.

Hehe yes, I meant smarter than clumsy and indifferent. 🙂

[Gripsholm Lion]

If the points were adapted according to a background, they could all end up being different colours, which would undermine the intent, with consistency being important to comprehension.

I found that bbrother's suggestion helped considerably.

[Pšenda]

21 hours ago, nickbatz said:

Yes, there are features in the program I don't know about. I've been graced with many talents, but memorizing every single word of a manual for a complicated program isn't among them!

You don't need to know everything by memory - that's why it's listed in Help, where you can find this information.

You write "You didn't know about that", which is why I've provided a link to the Help where there is more interesting information about object rotation, such as pressing the Shift key and rotating it 15 degrees. If this information does not interest you, or even offends you - ignore it, maybe it will be useful for other users.

[Bit Disappointed]

10 hours ago, GripsholmLion said:

If the points were adapted according to a background, they could all end up being different colours, which would undermine the intent, with consistency being important to comprehension.

Ah, I thought the OP was talking about the transform origin, that can be hard to spot:

                        !!

Yes, on a desktop computer, my absolute recommendation is to rotate via the corners, which I also think gives much better control of the rotation. The rotation handle is probably a better idea for touch devices.

[nickbatz]

22 hours ago, Pšenda said:

You don't need to know everything by memory - that's why it's listed in Help, where you can find this information.

You write "You didn't know about that", which is why I've provided a link to the Help where there is more interesting information about object rotation, such as pressing the Shift key and rotating it 15 degrees. If this information does not interest you, or even offends you - ignore it, maybe it will be useful for other users.

Fair enough. To me it read like "just go RTFM you idiot," if for no other reason than that there's no way to search for something like this if you don't know it exists in the first place!

But it looks like I read it wrong.

As you were...

[nickbatz]

On 1/24/2024 at 4:57 PM, Bit Arts said:

Hehe yes, I meant smarter than clumsy and indifferent. 🙂

Well, I'm not ready to go quite that far.  They clearly are serious about putting out a good program, as evidenced by the pace of beta updates (which isn't at all the typical beta software intended only for people who value having the latest thing over stability).