Crash using Move Line Begin/End with

[MikeTO]

This is a repeatable crash as well as an issue with the text cursor placement.

1. Open the attached document - the text is justified, auto hyphenation is on, and column end zone is set to a value other than 0.
2. Click in a line with a hyphen. Note that the cursor isn't drawn at the correct locations, it's off by couple of pixels here and there.
3. Use the Move Line Begin shortcut, then Move Line End, and then Move Line Begin again. This will crash Publisher. The text doesn't need to be justified to crash Publisher.

This screen recording is from the 2.4 beta but it's not beta specific, that's just the version I normally use.

test.afpub

Affinity Publisher 2 Beta-2024-03-19-232246.ips

 

 

[MikeTO]

Also see this other somewhat related issue.

 

[Martyn Folkes]

See this thread. The cursor placement issue also happens on Windows. I can't confirm the Move Line Begin/End issue because I can't find the shortcuts!

 

[Hangman]

5 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Use the Move Line Begin shortcut, then Move Line End, and then Move Line Begin again. This will crash Publisher. The text doesn't need to be justified to crash Publisher.

FWIW, the crash happens as soon as the value reaches 17.1 pt (1p5.1) or above...  Values below this don't cause the crash...

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Martyn Folkes said:

I can't confirm the Move Line Begin/End issue because I can't find the shortcuts!

Home and End by default, but I'm away from the computer so I'm not sure where they are. 

[MikeTO]

You can set the shortcut for these keys through Affinity Publisher > Settings.

[Martyn Folkes]

Home and End work. Thanks.

I hunted through Settings but gave up because I couldn't find them in what I thought were the obvious places. A search function for keyboard shortcuts would be helpful.

[Hangman]

1 minute ago, Martyn Folkes said:

I hunted through Settings but gave up because there is so much to look through. A search function for keyboard shortcuts would be helpful.

In Publisher they are under the Text Input category towards the bottom of the list...

[Martyn Folkes]

7 minutes ago, Hangman said:

In Publisher they are under the Text Input category towards the bottom of the list...

Sorry, but I can't find the Text Input category. I'm on Windows if that makes a difference. 

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

You can set the shortcut for these keys through Affinity Publisher > Settings.

But where? I'm not seeing them, on Windows.

Home and End work, but if I assign those to some shortcut they are not shown as already assigned.

[Hangman]

Maybe they're missing or hiding on Windows but on macOS...

[Martyn Folkes]

Not on Windows, then:

[MikeTO]

It's under text input, not tools.

[Hangman]

2 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

It's under text input, not tools.

As shown in the screen recording but it sounds as though that option is missing on Windows...

[Martyn Folkes]

I have tried to make a screen recording, but Game Bar can't see the setting dialog for some reason -- it just shows the mouse moving about but no dialog. Another bug? Something odd about the settings dialog?

But trust me, it ain't there in Windows:

 

 

[Hangman]

Just for clarity as there appear to be differences between the way Mac and Windows display the setting options...

This is the full list on macOS... Text Input has its own category towards the bottom of the list and has nothing to do with the Tools options... I believe the option is simply not available on Windows.

[MikeTO]

I feel like we've encountered this difference between Mac and Windows before and the text input shortcuts are located somewhere else on Windows. Check in Miscellaneous, Edit, and Text.

[Martyn Folkes]

2 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Check in Miscellaneous, Edit, and Text.

Just double checked and they are not in any of those places.

[MikeTO]

Odd. Anyway, here are the default shortcuts for Windows. As Walt stated, these ones are Home and End.

[Return]

https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_frameText.html

[Martyn Folkes]

8 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

here are the default shortcuts for Windows

Thanks. I know these, but the point, I think, is that we're unable to change them in Windows.

 

[Martyn Folkes]

7 minutes ago, Return said:

https://affinity.help/publisher2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_frameText.html

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[Return]

10 minutes ago, Martyn Folkes said:

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The rest of the shortcuts for the textframe on windows(provided you open the help on a windows computer)

[Martyn Folkes]

I don't know what you mean. There are no shortcuts on that page. 

It doesn't matter. My main purpose for being on this thread was to support the bug in alignment of the text cursor, but I got distracted by the shortcuts issue.

I might make a bug report, or several bug reports, in the Windows Bugs forum at some point.

[MikeTO]

32 minutes ago, Martyn Folkes said:

I don't know what you mean. There are no shortcuts on that page. 

It doesn't matter. My main purpose for being on this thread was to support the bug in alignment of the text cursor, but I got distracted by the shortcuts issue.

I might make a bug report, or several bug reports, in the Windows Bugs forum at some point.

You don't need to file another bug report for the cursor issue, this is what this thread is for, both the cursor issue and the crash bug. It doesn't matter that I created it in the macOS forum, your report of the issue on Windows would be used to log that it's for both platforms.