5 blue Lines on Layer Meaning

[SaraC]

 

What do the 5 blue dashes on the layers indicate? I can't seem to edit any of the layers. BTW it an AI file

 

[walt.farrell]

29 minutes ago, SaraC said:

What do the 5 blue dashes on the layers indicate?

That it's a Layer layer. Icons are shown in the Help. Or when you mouse over them, or put the trackpad cursor over them.

https://affinity.help/designer2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/aboutLayers.html

 

[Paul Mudditt]

18 hours ago, SaraC said:

 

What do the 5 blue dashes on the layers indicate? I can't seem to edit any of the layers. BTW it an AI file

 

As Walt states correctly on the desktop they are simply a 'layer' layer.
On the iPad they are called a 'vector layer' for some strange reason even though they are the same thing.

You can see by the empty thumbnails that three of them are empty layers i.e. containers without contents hence nothing to edit other than the name of the container layer.

Edited March 15, 2024 by Paul Mudditt
Corrected, thank you Alfred.

[Alfred]

17 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Icons are shown in the Help. Or when you mouse over them, or put the trackpad cursor over them.

Quite difficult to do if you don’t have a mouse or a trackpad connected to your iPad!

[Alfred]

37 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

You can see by the empty thumbnails that they are empty layers i.e. containers without contents hence nothing to edit other than the name of the container layer.

The thumbnail for the ‘Artwork’ layer shows that it has contents, but that’s the only one. It’s also the only one to have a ‘>’ sign below the blue icon, and tapping on that sign will expand the layer so that you can see the artwork object that it contains.

[SaraC]

55 minutes ago, Paul Mudditt said:

As Walt states correctly on the desktop they are simply a 'layer' layer.
On the iPad they are called a 'vector layer' for some strange reason even though they are the same thing.

You can see by the empty thumbnails that they are empty layers i.e. containers without contents hence nothing to edit other than the name of the container layer.

Brilliant, thank you!  Nothing in them edit, teehee!