QR Code Tool

[lastingMadness]

Thanks. I hadn't seen anyone ask it, but that's totally fair. I appreciate you bringing it to my attention

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "QR code - no warning when 2953 charcter limit is excedeed" (REF: AF-2759) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2437".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, Affinity Info Bot said:

The issue "QR code - no warning when 2953 charcter limit is excedeed" (REF: AF-2759) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2437".

Massive spill chucker fail!!

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "QR code - Does not support multi-line input for vCard (.vcf), VCALENDAR and VEVENT (.ics) URI" (REF: AF-2781) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.5.0.2437".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

[Ash]

We have added a new UI for the QR code tool in 2.5.0.2437, and changed the way you add data into it. When you click on "Data" field on the context toolbar you will see a new popup dialog which has a few presets for common schemes.

If you want to use a URI scheme that's not in the list, you would have to use the "Text" preset.

We have also added form validation. If you see a warning icon, hover over it and it will tell you what's expected to be in that field. 

[Patrick Connor]

Known issues in #2437 (added to the known issues post )

• AF-2959 - QR code - wifi preset missing ; between Encryption type and password field
• AF-2987 - QR code - Edit QR code > Invalid fields don't have a tooltip on iPad
• AF-2985 - QR code - Edit QR code is too short on iPad

[4dimage]

Windows 11, beta 2.5.0 2437 - QR-Code URL is not recognized as valid.

This URL is my valid homepage: https://www.4d-image.de/

But the Dialog claims it as invalid URL and i can not confirm with OK. I think you didn't take into account "special" characters like minus "-".

[Alfred]

32 minutes ago, Ash said:

We have also added form validation. If you see a warning icon, hover over it and it will tell you what's expected to be in that field. 

The ‘+’ sign in front of the country code is pretty standard, as far as I’m aware. Couldn’t it and any leading zeros be stripped out automagically instead of invoking a warning?

Side note: When referring to ‘(‘ and ‘)’ it would be better to call them ‘parentheses’ to avoid potential confusion for US English speakers. The ‘-’ sign is a hyphen, not a dash.

[lastingMadness]

4 minutes ago, 4dimage said:

Windows 11, beta 2.5.0 2437 - QR-Code URL is not recognized as valid.

This URL is my valid homepage: https://www.4d-image.de/

But the Dialog claims it as invalid URL and i can not confirm with OK. I think you didn't take into account "special" characters like minus "-".

I just checked what the encoding should be for that. I know it should just recognize it, but out of curiosity, replace the hyphens with %2D.  That should be workaround.

[GRAFKOM]

Once a QR code is created, there is no subsequent access to the code's content.

 

[4dimage]

16 minutes ago, lastingMadness said:

I just checked what the encoding should be for that. I know it should just recognize it, but out of curiosity, replace the hyphens with %2D.  That should be workaround.

No way

I think, if our DENIC accepts my domain name as is - Affinity should also do that 🙂

[Hangman]

A couple of queries re vCard Validation...

• Entering an email address completely hides the QR Code on the canvas/page until one character is entered after the full stop for the TLD, i.e., you have to have entered at least '.c' or '.o' etc., for the QR code to show which is a little offputting... Would '@' not be a better validator for email addresses?
   
• Entering a URL completely hides the QR Code on the canvas/page until two characters are entered after either the first full stop if using www. or if not using www the second character after the TLD (which is also inconsistent with the email address validation.

Note: this isn't the case when editing the QR Code details, i.e., you can delete the address to a place before the full stop and the QR code is still visible.

• The text entered in the Notes section for a vCard is justified instead of ranged left when entering and editing the text.

[Tim France]

17 minutes ago, Alfred said:

The ‘+’ sign in front of the country code is pretty standard, as far as I’m aware. Couldn’t it and any leading zeros be stripped out automagically instead of invoking a warning?

Well... maybe. But the WhatsApp help specifically states the link should be formatted as described in the tooltip. See https://faq.whatsapp.com/5913398998672934 You could argue that it strip leading zeros, but that leads to this next problem:

15 minutes ago, anto said:

There is no validation for phone and sms

There is no standardised format for phone numbers, so validating it isn't really feasible. Even if I tried to validate against some common formats (I did initially), there are many locale-specific rules and conventions that don't follow them, but are valid in certain regions. I felt it best to leave it up to the user to get it right. Going back to WhatsApp, I could strip zeros, but then should + be stripped too? What about spaces? The automagic could significantly change the number. I think the most sensible approach is to validate against the official WhatsApp spec.

[Tim France]

4 minutes ago, 4dimage said:

No way

I think, if our DENIC accepts my domain name as is - Affinity should also do that 🙂

Yep, I think that's fair!

[Tim France]

Just now, anto said:

At least check whether it's a number. There are definitely no letters in the phone number. And allow + () -

What about the American style 1-800-CALLDAVE?

[fde101]

1 minute ago, Tim France said:

What about the American style 1-800-CALLDAVE?

That has too many "digits" - should only be seven.

Also, are those even legal in a QR code?

[GRAFKOM]

15 minut temu Anto Powiedziała:

Musisz kliknąć ikonę narzędzia z kodem QR

Nie ma sensu, żebym musiał klikać ikonę kodu QR, w poprzedniej wersji było dobrze, wybrałem istniejący obiekt QR i miałem dostęp do zawartości kodu QR w pasku kontekstowym.

[Tim France]

11 minutes ago, fde101 said:

That has too many digits - should only be seven.

Also, are those even legal in a QR code?

My mistake. I'm sure you take the point though  

Anything is "legal" in a QR code - it is just text (technically it doesn't even have to be that - you can have raw byte data if you like). The only thing that makes a particular type is how it is formatted / constructed and if it is supported by the QR reader. There aren't any official standards, just conventions that most QR readers follow... but even those differ between Android and iOS.

[Patrick Connor]

1 hour ago, GRAFKOM said:

Once a QR code is created, there is no subsequent access to the code's content.

Thanks that is not correct. The select tool should add context sensitive values like they do for all other shapes. Note that the Node tool does it right!

AF-2997

[Gabe]

1 hour ago, 4dimage said:

Windows 11, beta 2.5.0 2437 - QR-Code URL is not recognized as valid.

This URL is my valid homepage: https://www.4d-image.de/

But the Dialog claims it as invalid URL and i can not confirm with OK. I think you didn't take into account "special" characters like minus "-".

Thanks. Issue logged

[Patrick Connor]

1 minute ago, anto said:

Then the Data Merge Layout tool also behaves incorrectly

then that belongs in the bugs forum

[GRAFKOM]

If there is a lot of content in the QR code content, the scroll bar does not show. It would be best if I could manually enlarge the text input window.

[GRAFKOM]

8 minutes ago, anto said:

Then the Data Merge Layout tool also behaves incorrectly

So this needs to be corrected so that when you click on the Data Merge Layout object, the contents of the Data Merge Layout are shown in the context bar.

[Patrick Connor]

6 minutes ago, anto said:

But is this a bug or is it by design? Who knows?

and

1 minute ago, GRAFKOM said:

So this needs to be corrected so that when you click on the Data Merge Layout object, the contents of the Data Merge Layout are shown in the context bar.

still off topic and in the wrong forum guys

[garrettm30]

I suggest using the name “Custom” instead of “Text” for giving the user the option to go it alone with other formats, because I might not have realized that I could use “Text” for any other format. If I had not been reading these notes, I might not have guessed that “Text” is totally unprocessed raw text as distinct from the other options that prepare the syntax for us. Alternatively “Raw Text” or “Text or other data”