Intuos5 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 In Windows 10, I am unable to resize studio panels vertically. There are no problems in 2.4.2. 2024-05-04 09-06-34.mp4 E: This does not apply to the Designer persona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I believe the panels need to be expanded before they can be resized vertically and bear in mind that not all panels are vertically expandable, e.g., the Colour, Stroke and Transform Panels aren't... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 29 minutes ago, Intuos5 said: There are no problems in 2.4.2 You can't do this in version 2.4.2 either. There are panels that have a constant size, and you can't do anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 6 minutes ago, Hangman said: I believe the panels need to be expanded before they can be resized vertically Then why is there a misleading sign that the panel can be resized vertically? Look at the Swatches panel 2024-05-04 10-41-26.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 7 minutes ago, Hangman said: I believe the panels need to be expanded before they can be resized vertically and bear in mind that not all panels are vertically expandable, e.g., the Colour, Stroke and Transform Panels aren't... I can resize the layers panel into the swatches panel, but cannot move the stroke panel up into the swatches panel to resize the layers panel below. 2024-05-04 09-46-13.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 Such a waste of space if they cannot be resized or at least dragged up. 2024-05-04 09-49-21.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 12 minutes ago, anto said: You can't do this in version 2.4.2 either. There are panels that have a constant size, and you can't do anything. Yeah, I see now, there is a difference in panel order between my 2.4.2 and 2.5 layouts. That's what makes the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 The Swatches, Layers, Character, Paragraph, Text Styles, Navigator and History Panels are all scalable vertically, the Colour, Stroke and Transform Panels are not... Those that are scalable vertically only do so when they are expanded... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 10 minutes ago, anto said: Then why is there a misleading sign that the panel can be moved vertically? It's indicating that the Swatches panel can be scaled vertically but because the panel isn't expanded in your screen recording it can't... I'm unsure how that compares to Mac, I would need to check... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 25 minutes ago, Hangman said: It's indicating that the Swatches panel can be scaled vertically but because the panel isn't expanded in your screen recording it can't... Why do you need to specify this? You explain in terms of what is currently implemented. I think this is a bug. I don't see any logic in it. Otherwise, when you select a rectangle, for example, all possible indicators and arrows should appear, showing what you can do with it. And this should not be the case. Intuos5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 To be honest I don't know if this is expected behaviour or a bug so just explaining what appears to be the logic with the studio panels on Windows, i.e., If a panel capable of being scaled vertically is collapsed the panel can't be scaled, if the panel is expanded it can... Do you see the same behaviour with the same panel groupings on Mac? Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 1 hour ago, Hangman said: The Swatches, Layers, Character, Paragraph, Text Styles, Navigator and History Panels are all scalable vertically, the Colour, Stroke and Transform Panels are not... Those that are scalable vertically only do so when they are expanded... But that means the stroke panel cannot be dragged to resize (downsize) the swatches panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted May 14 Staff Share Posted May 14 An issue raised in this thread ("[Win] Vertical resize icon shows when panel is collapsed") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-3063). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff EmT Posted May 14 Staff Share Posted May 14 On 5/4/2024 at 8:43 AM, anto said: Then why is there a misleading sign that the panel can be resized vertically? Thanks for pointing this out, I pass this report along. Quote How to format a bug report | List of V2 FAQ's | Affinity Photo (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Designer (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Publisher (V2) Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff EmT Posted May 14 Staff Share Posted May 14 Hi @Intuos5 As @Hangman has said, certain panels are a fixed vertical size by design, such as Colour, Stroke, Transform Quote How to format a bug report | List of V2 FAQ's | Affinity Photo (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Designer (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Publisher (V2) Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intuos5 Posted May 14 Author Share Posted May 14 3 hours ago, EmT said: Hi @Intuos5 As @Hangman has said, certain panels are a fixed vertical size by design, such as Colour, Stroke, Transform Sure, but some studio panels are not. Now you cannot resize the panels that have a variable size due to there being fixed size panels. For example, the stroke panel cannot be moved closer up to the swatches panel, therefore, the layers panel gets really tiny in the screen recording below. That's a real usability issue. If a panel cannot be resized, you should at least be able to resize the panel above if that particular panel does support resizing. See screen recording: On 5/4/2024 at 9:50 AM, Intuos5 said: Such a waste of space if they cannot be resized or at least dragged up. 2024-05-04 09-49-21.mp4 313.77 kB · 8 downloads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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