Cannot resize studio panels vertically in Beta Build 2 (2415)

[Intuos5]

In Windows 10, I am unable to resize studio panels vertically. There are no problems in 2.4.2.

E: This does not apply to the Designer persona.

[Hangman]

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...

[Intuos5]

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.

 

 

[Intuos5]

Such a waste of space if they cannot be resized or at least dragged up.

 

 

[Intuos5]

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.

[Hangman]

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...

[Hangman]

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...

[Hangman]

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?

[Intuos5]

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.

[Affinity Info Bot]

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.

[EmT]

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. 

[EmT]

Hi @Intuos5

As @Hangman has said, certain panels are a fixed vertical size by design, such as Colour, Stroke, Transform

[Intuos5]

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.