Strange menu alignment still not fixed

[Vulpecula]

Hello,

Although I reported this problem in November 2022, I see it is still not fixed in Windows 11 (ok on Windows 10)

Affinity suite 2.5.3.2516

The menu item are left aligned, expected to be right aligned

Thanks

 

 

Edited June 20, 2024 by Vulpecula

[walt.farrell]

You did not report it as a Bug at that time. You added a comment to another user's Question topic, but I am surprised no one responded (even me). My apologies.

You've only shown us part of the application window in your screenshot above. It would be useful to see the complete application window.

Also, in your earlier post, you mentioned that you did not have the Pen setting available because you're on the desktop. That Windows setting is available for all users, in my experience. I would suggest trying option 2 in this tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/68038-set-menus-open-aligned-left-right-windows-10-a.html

[Ron P.]

Not a bug in my opinion. I'm not seeing that behavior on my Windows 10.

[Vulpecula]

Thanks for your replies and documentation.

@Walt: I changed my original post to a full screen screenshot as suggested.

Windows 11 is really a mess, a lot of parameters are no more accessible depending on your configuration. The ink & pen screen parameter is very limited.

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I would suggest trying option 2 in this tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/68038-set-menus-open-aligned-left-right-windows-10-a.html

The documentation here states that this option is only available if you have a pen.

Also, I didn't find any Tablett settings on my windows 11.

I think this problem is not a windows 11 specific one. My laptop has a 4k touch screen. There is no pen configured. Probably this is the reason why no pen parameters can be modified.

I can imagine the fact that my laptop has a touch screen is the reason why the Affinity suite is considering running on a tablette PC.

For this reason I would lean to consider this as a bug, the hardware context is not correctly taken into account at the start of the application.

[Vulpecula]

Looking forward to fix this problem and thanks to the documentation supplied by Walt, I had a look with the third option

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The value was set to 1, no idea why. I set it to 0, and now it works correctly.

Anyway, I would suggest Serif to fix this behaviour. A user should never have to mess around with the registry. The excution context at the start of the application must take into account not only this registry value, but probably also other value(s) to detect if its a laptop or a tablett.

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Vulpecula said:

but probably also other value(s) to detect if its a laptop or a tablett.

Laptop vs tablet PC doesn't really matter. A laptop or desktop system can have a Pen, e.g., via a Wacom or some other tablet accessory. And such an accessory can be added or removed at any time.

[Vulpecula]

No really. In windows 10, you can configure manually the desktop/laptop/tablet mode. This matters. When set in tablette mode, the gui changes and probably the application menu behaviour as well.

 

In windows 11 it seems this configuration is no more possible (The Tablet paramater page doesn't exist).

This is the reason why I think this is not something well managed by Serif. If this is too difficult to handle, at least a parameter should let you define this handedness.

If you don't see this as a bug, at least this should be aknowledged as somtething to improve. This is the first time I have applications with this wrong behaviour (and I have a lot). Again, for a common user, this is not an reasonable solution to ask her/him to tweak it's registry.

 

[jonheal]

This issue suddenly appeared for me and after reading this thread, I suspect it is the result of me recently installing my Huion tablet. I'll see if I can get the menus to snap back to where "they belong."

[jonheal]

Yes, the Registry key update fixed the issue. I suspect this issue arises only with users that have tablets.

... what I don't get is why I need to configure as a left-hander to get menus to appear in the default manner ... still, not Affinity's issue, I don't think.