escape from TEXT-tool via QWERTZ & how DONT "show

[Polygonius]

1.

Is there any way to escape the text-tool via QWERTZ.... + special-keys and after this directly jump to to eg. "V" for move-tool, or "B" for brush....??? (If my booth hands are on the QWERTZ... ist so wide-window to move one to the mouse....)

 

2.

I often want the some similar of this: 

I want often an INVISBLE object-frame (at all) and  ALL THE TIME for the current (selected) layer ... UNTIL i de-actived the "invisible-frame-option"  like in this picture- menu!

 

3.

(Move-tool) I often click outside an object and AD jumps to its Group/Parents/Backgrounds/Artborad itself....... 

Sometimes/really often i dont want this. 

The same here. As long this LAYER/or group is "temprorily" in focus / protected, there should be a TEMP-protection "click outside "in canvas" dosent jump to another layer/group....

JUST the LAYER_Panel itself will escape from this (and deactivate this TEMP-setting autoimatically.... so if i come back another i have also to activate this again....)

 

Any possibility to this with v2.3? Any plans to implement such things? 

 

 

 

[thomaso]

11 minutes ago, Polygonius said:

Is there any way to escape the text-tool via QWERTZ.... + special-keys and after this directly jump to to eg. "V" for move-tool, or "B" for brush....??? (If my booth hands are on the QWERTZ... ist so wide-window to move one to the mouse....)

Press the ESC key to leave the text editing mode, then press a tool shortcut (V, B, …) to switch the tool.

23 minutes ago, Polygonius said:

(Move-tool) I often click outside an object and AD jumps to its Group/Parents/Backgrounds/Artborad itself....... 

This does not happen to me in V1. Here clicking an empty layout area does neither select a parent group nor the parent artboard layer, but just unselects the previously selected object. And, then double-clicking the previously selected, nested object in the layout window does select it again.

Can you show a video demonstrating the unwanted auto-select behaviour, including the Layers panel with unfolded layers and the panel option "Auto-scroll" activated?

[HCl]

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[thomaso]

26 minutes ago, Return said:

twice or three times.

What situation requires ESC multiple times? What result do you get if you ESC only once and type V afterwards?

[HCl]

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[R C-R]

5 hours ago, thomaso said:

What situation requires ESC multiple times? What result do you get if you ESC only once and type V afterwards?

As @Return shows, if you have text selected (highlighted) in a text object, tapping ESC once just deselects that text but leaves the cursor active at the insertion point in the text so if you were to type V afterwards it would insert a V in the text.

[Polygonius]

Thank you guys!

[Pšenda]

On 2/11/2024 at 8:36 PM, R C-R said:

if you have text selected (highlighted) in a text object

But OP writes "Is there any way to escape the text-tool via QWERTZ". Nowhere is it written about the selected text - so the correct answer to the OP's question is "press ESC key".

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, Pšenda said:

But OP writes "Is there any way to escape the text-tool via QWERTZ". Nowhere is it written about the selected text - so the correct answer to the OP's question is "press ESC key".

My answer was a reply to @thomaso's question here, not what the OP said.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

My answer was a reply to @thomaso's question here, not what the OP said.

Yes, but thomaso's question followed after his answer "Press the ESC key" (correct in my opinion) was rejected and corrected with the statement "twice or three times". In the context of the posts, it's so interesting why bother with something the OP isn't asking.
P.S. a different situation would arise if thomaso's answer "Press the ESC key" was supplemented with the comment "Or twice or three times", ideally with the explanation "because if the text is highligted/selected, the first ESC cancels this selection, and the second one causes the text tool to be abandoned". But that's not how it was written, so I don't know - why thomaso's answer was fixed, maybe different behavior on Mac? - a rhetorical question, I am no longer interested in it, so there is no need to continue the "discussion".

Edited February 13, 2024 by Pšenda

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Pšenda said:

In the context of the posts, it's so interesting why bother with something the OP isn't asking.

It's because other people besides the OP may read topics like this & they may find related info helpful. This happens frequently & I believe it is generally considered beneficial to the community as a whole. I assume that is why @Return replied to @thomaso's question, & why @thomaso asked it in the first place. Also, as far as I can tell, nobody "rejected" @thomaso's original answer. 

Besides, @Polygonius was the OP & marked several of our posts with a 'like' so I assume that extra info was useful to him or her, as I hope it will be to others not familiar with why sometimes pressing ESC more than once is necessary.

[Polygonius]

Thanks guys! Hit twice( or 3 times) ESC works fine.

On 2/11/2024 at 2:00 PM, thomaso said:

This does not happen to me in V1. Here clicking an empty layout area does neither select a parent group nor the parent artboard layer, but just unselects the previously selected object. And, then double-clicking the previously selected, nested object in the layout window does select it again.

This happens if you use a REACTANGLE as your background, instead the ARTBORD itself.... or bigger groups... in sub- groups.... each click outside will jump the focus to its parant/parant/more background....  In 98% cases i want this behaviovor... but SOMETIMES not. This 2-3% cases i dont want are: I+m deepdive working on an object..- i dont want to see the ANT_Lines and other "selector-guides/boxes"....  But this 03% percent the case, so the default.... gets higher and higer depending on click i say welcomme!

 

BUT SOMETIMES (3-4% percent i dont want to see, neither an "ant-line" nor a selector-box--- nor someting other like this...."

WHY not disabele this temporailly LIKE the show pixel/retina2/x-ray....view.....) ???

[thomaso]

On 2/13/2024 at 8:01 PM, Polygonius said:

Hit twice( or 3 times) ESC works fine.

Or once (or 4 or even more times) … depending on your situation. With no text selected 1x is enough and multiple times don't change it.

By the way, if you want to move  selected  text between text frames you don't need to leave the Text Tool, you can drag  selected text with the mouse button pressed into another text frame. (or use copy paste)

On 2/13/2024 at 8:01 PM, Polygonius said:

i dont want to see, neither an "ant-line" nor a selector-box--- nor someting other like this...."

WHY not disabele this temporailly LIKE the show pixel/retina2/x-ray....view.....) ???

To visually hide a selection's bounding box or an ants marquee you have various options, additionally to your shown button "hide while dragging".

Depending on your situation you can …

• press/hold the Space Bar on your keyboard.
• switch to "Preview Mode" via Toolbar button or menu or shortcut.
• hide the ants marquee ("Pixel Selection") via menu or shortcut.

[Polygonius]

On 2/14/2024 at 11:06 AM, thomaso said:

By the way, if you want to move  selected  text between text frames you don't need to leave the Text Tool, you can drag  selected text with the mouse button pressed into another text frame. (or use copy paste)

Thanks for all , and especially for this tipp! Drag&Drop i didnt got to function... but cmd+c/ cmd+v works excellecnt. Yeah its a big time(click)-saver! Thanks!

[thomaso]

11 minutes ago, Polygonius said:

Drag&Drop i didnt got to function

Did you release the mouse button after selecting the text… then press + hold the mouse button down for dragging?

At least on mac it works in various apps, not Affinity only.
This way you can drag a text selection even into a macOS Finder window to save it there as snippet (file type: .textClipping)