Using Layers and Convert to Curves makes Undo fail

[walt.farrell]

I haven't found a bug report for this.

Recipe:

1. Create a new document (Designer 2.3.1, Windows)
2. Add a Layer (icon at bottom of Layers panel)
3. Draw a Shape in the Layer (e.g., Rectangle)
4. Select the Layer in the Layers panel.
5. Layer > Convert to Curves from the menu. At that point, the Layer becomes a Group, and the objects that were within the Layer are now Curve layers within the Group.
6. Undo step 5 (Ctrl+z, or Edit > Undo). The Group becomes a Layer again. But the Curve within it stays a Curve (does not revert to a Rectangle) which is incorrect.
7. Undo until you get back to step 2. The Curve still remains.

There are other things that could happen. For example, I can sometimes end up with both the Rectangle and the Curve that was created from it if I use the alternate future branch in History.

 

 

[prophet]

Can confirm the same on MacOS 13.6.3 with Designer 2.3.1

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @walt.farrell!

I can confirm I've been able to replicate this issue here and I've logged it with our development team now.

Within this report, I've raised the question of whether the 'Layer' should be converted to a 'Group' with this action - as I'm not sure of the developers desired behaviour here.

21 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

There are other things that could happen. For example, I can sometimes end up with both the Rectangle and the Curve that was created from it if I use the alternate future branch in History.

Using Cycle Futures, I was able to create a document state whereby the 'Curve' existed in the Layers Studio, but the active Bounding Box on canvas was for the original Rectangle, and transforming this did not affect the present Curve. Essentially creating a ghost bounding box for a Layer that no longer existed.

I suspect that the devs fix to the failure of 'Undo' here will also stop these Cycle Future issues from occurring - but to be certain, do you recall the workflow whereby 2 objects were present in the file simultaneously?

Many thanks in advance 

[walt.farrell]

I don't recall the exact workflow that gave the duplicate, @Dan C, but I'll play around and see if I can recreate it.