MmmMaarten Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 OMG, after using Affinity Designer for years there's still new things to discover. I don't know when this was introduced, but being able to select two vertices/points and scale the edge/line with a mousewheel on the text fields is just incredible! Things like this is really what makes Affinity great! Love it! Thanks Serif for really putting the effort into creating intuitive interfaces that are fun to work with! amazing-stuff.mp4 markw, Paul Mudditt, Dan C and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 6 Staff Share Posted February 6 Thanks for your kind feedback 17 minutes ago, MmmMaarten said: being able to select two vertices/points and scale the edge/line with a mousewheel on the text fields is just incredible! As an added bonus, you can use the CTRL modifier when scrolling the wheel to change the value in 0.1 increments, and the SHIFT modifier to change the value in 10 increments. Equally, the Transform and Opacity labels support 'click + drag' gestures, meaning you can adjust the values by clicking and dragging on the field label itself - 2024-02-06 11-27-41.mp4 We hope these gestures allow our users to make even faster adjustments when editing MmmMaarten and Paul Mudditt 2 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 If it only worked consistently on all platforms. This was a major set-back for me when switching from PC to Mac that it is not available in many places like PT filter. i really like it where available Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I'm assuming this is Windows only as this doesn't appear supported on macOS. Shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MmmMaarten Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 38 minutes ago, Dan C said: Thanks for your kind feedback As an added bonus, you can use the CTRL modifier when scrolling the wheel to change the value in 0.1 increments, and the SHIFT modifier to change the value in 10 increments. Equally, the Transform and Opacity labels support 'click + drag' gestures, meaning you can adjust the values by clicking and dragging on the field label itself -We hope these gestures allow our users to make even faster adjustments when editing Thanks Dan, great tips! Going to implement those in my workflow for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 14 minutes ago, Bryan Rieger said: this doesn't appear supported on macOS And I'm glad it isn't because there's rarely anything as annoying as values being "magically" changed while I'm inadvertently dragging with a two-finger gesture on the MacBook trackpad. This is exactly what happens if you have e.g. the Character panel with all subsections open, you want to scroll the panel content and accidentally hover over the Font Size/Tracking/Baseline/Leading Override fields… 52 minutes ago, Dan C said: you can adjust the values by clicking and dragging on the field label itself Yep, I'm totally fine with this option. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Rieger Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Yeah, I forgot how frustrating that character panel behaviour still is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, Bryan Rieger said: I'm assuming this is Windows only as this doesn't appear supported on macOS. Shame. Seems to work fine on my Mac Mini and even my iPad ! The selecting the nodes for a second time is new functionality to me which offers accuracy in construction at last. Screen Recording 2024-02-06 at 15.34.09.mov Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said: Seems to work fine on my Mac Mini Aaaah! Yep, using an actual mouse with a scroll wheel does work. (I haven't used one in years…) Which means… 6 hours ago, loukash said: […] dragging with a two-finger gesture on the MacBook trackpad […] e.g. the Character panel with all subsections open, you want to scroll the panel content and accidentally hover over the Font Size/Tracking/Baseline/Leading Override fields … is a bug. Two-finger trackpad gesture scroll should be completely excluded from this. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted February 8 Staff Share Posted February 8 On 2/6/2024 at 7:19 PM, loukash said: Which means… On 2/6/2024 at 12:19 PM, loukash said: […] dragging with a two-finger gesture on the MacBook trackpad […] e.g. the Character panel with all subsections open, you want to scroll the panel content and accidentally hover over the Font Size/Tracking/Baseline/Leading Override fields … is a bug. Two-finger trackpad gesture scroll should be completely excluded from this. Testing this here on macOS, I can see that certain field inputs accepts a trackpad gesture (such as the Font size field on the Context Toolbar), however other fields don't accept this gesture (Transform Studio, Stroke Studio etc) and this should be consistent throughout IMO. I'm getting this logged as a bug with our team now - in the report I'm going to identify the inconsistencies throughout the app and request that the gesture works for all fields. Alongside this I will be requesting for this to be controlled with a new Tool Preference option, allowing the user to disable the feature across all fields when using a trackpad. This would allow users who are already using the gesture in the currently support fields to continue with the same workflow, but with the option to disable the behaviour for users that don't want to accidentally trigger this and change values when scrolling through a Studio, for example. Once these changes are then implemented, I'll request the helpfile is adjusted to include Trackpad support, listed alongside the mouse scroll wheel support - as well as coverage of the new preference option requested. I hope this helps Paul Mudditt, NotMyFault, loukash and 2 others 3 2 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 30 minutes ago, Dan C said: Alongside this I will be requesting for this to be controlled with a new Tool Preference option, allowing the user to disable the feature across all fields when using a trackpad. Excellent! 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 51 minutes ago, Dan C said: Alongside this I will be requesting for this to be controlled with a new Tool Preference option, allowing the user to disable the feature across all fields when using a trackpad. I once wished an option that would either require input focus before performing mouse-wheel based value adjustment, or alternatively, e.g. 500ms delay within a certain hover delta tolerance that would be enough to indicate that wheel was scrolled to adjust a value. I have learned to beware of inadvertent value adjustments but it still happens occasionally. It is fine to have it operating as it does now, but this kind of an option would be welcome. Oufti and Dan C 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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