ASUNDER Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 The hint bar says "Ctrl To Clone Selected Objects". But 'Alt' can do that as well. Which is the worst possible 'clone object 'shortcut. Can you get rid of the 'hold alt to clone', seeing as it's used so much for disabling snap. And we already have Ctrl as a clone, so what point is there having two of the same shortcut on modifier keys that are right beside each other? The Alt one does nothing but get in the way. If someone wants to clone something and move it off the grid they can just release the mouse to finish the clone then hold Alt and drag it. ... Depending on how I clicked on something I get one of two hint bars. Can you get rid of the shorter one and only have one hint bar for selected things. When holding Alt to disable snap can you make the toolbar icon show disabled (Greyed out) during the duration of the hold down. Quote Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit Affinity Designer 2.5.3 , Photo 2 , Publisher 2 Good computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUNDER Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 I thought for sure you would just have to hold the mouse button down first then holding Alt it will let you move an object off grid (As opposed to Alt first then mouse to clone). But no, you literally have to start moving the object before Alt changes from clone to disable snap. Wow is that ever dumb. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS? Did you guys go out of your way to make sure the Alt key is as difficult and unintuitive as humanly possible to use? Quote Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit Affinity Designer 2.5.3 , Photo 2 , Publisher 2 Good computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Which os, Mac or Windows? on Windows, the Alt key when pressed first always triggers the menu, which cannot be easily overruled by an app, making it barely usable. Several Affinity keyboard shortcuts (with modifyers) do not work for keyboard layouts where the modifier key is required to create the actual letter like [] for German layout. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUNDER Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 50 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Which os, Mac or Windows? I put my details on the 'About Me' profile section, but it doesn't seem to be showing. For me it's Windows. I just want the clone shortcut to be removed from Alt altogether. On my keyboard, like most, the Alt key is an inch and three quarters on center away from the Ctrl key. So having clone on the Alt key is not only redundant it actually removes abilities instead of adds them (having to move the object first before 'disable snap' is toggled on). I would also love the forum edit window to be the same format as how it publishes (the same width) so I don't end up with weird sentences that have only one word on a new line. Quote Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit Affinity Designer 2.5.3 , Photo 2 , Publisher 2 Good computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 (edited) 23 minutes ago, ASUNDER said: I would also love the forum edit window to be the same format as how it publishes (the same width) so I don't end up with weird sentences that have only one word on a new line. Since the forums use a responsive layout, which means that the width of the area in which the text is displayed is dependent upon each user’s browser window width, what you suggest doesn’t really make much sense to me. Also, you can’t know what font size people will have their browsers set to or what zoom level they are viewing the site at. In other words, no matter what it looks like for you, you have no way of knowing what it will look like for anyone else. Edited August 20 by GarryP PaulEC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 1 hour ago, ASUNDER said: I put my details on the 'About Me' profile section, but it doesn't seem to be showing. It's a lot easier to see your details if you put them in your "Signature" (in Account Settings), so that they show at the bottom of your posts. Most people don't want to have to go to your Profile to try to find them. ASUNDER 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUNDER Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 13 minutes ago, PaulEC said: It's a lot easier to see your details if you put them in your "Signature" (in Account Settings), so that they show at the bottom of your posts. Most people don't want to have to go to your Profile to try to find them. I thought the 'About Me' was the signature, my fault. Quote Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit Affinity Designer 2.5.3 , Photo 2 , Publisher 2 Good computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUNDER Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 Oh hey look it has a preview button. Now I can type out a bunch of stuff and see if they go off the page. And I can keep typing until I actually have something to say so I can preview it, this is kind of like when you have an essay character requirement but nothing to say. Quote Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit Affinity Designer 2.5.3 , Photo 2 , Publisher 2 Good computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 2 hours ago, ASUNDER said: I just want the clone shortcut to be removed from Alt altogether. Apparently (according to a previous post) the use of Ctrl + Drag and Alt + Drag to clone was a deliberate decision by the developers as both are used in other software, so whichever shortcut people are used to it will work in Affinity. There is actually a slight difference between them. Ctrl + Drag constrains the movement enables snapping, Alt + Drag doesn't. (Personally I always use Ctrl + Drag, having two shortcuts for the same thing seems like the waste of a good shortcut when options fo4r shortcuts are limited!) EDITED Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUNDER Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 4 minutes ago, PaulEC said: There is actually a slight difference between them. Ctrl + Drag constrains the movement, Alt + Drag doesn't. Technically Ctrl is supposed to constrain it vertically, but in this case it doesn't seem to be doing so. Only Ctrl + Shift constrains. If Alt clone is a matter of industry standard, then it would be really nice to add a settings option to turn it off. Quote Windows 10 Home 22H2 64 bit Affinity Designer 2.5.3 , Photo 2 , Publisher 2 Good computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 2 minutes ago, ASUNDER said: Technically Ctrl is supposed to constrain it vertically, but in this case it doesn't seem to be doing so. Only Ctrl + Shift constrains. If Alt clone is a matter of industry standard, then it would be really nice to add a settings option to turn it off. Sorry, my bad, I should have said snapping, not constrains! ASUNDER 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 2 hours ago, ASUNDER said: I would also love the forum edit window to be the same format as how it publishes (the same width) so I don't end up with weird sentences that have only one word on a new line You can use the Preview button (page with magnifying glass, on the right-end of the icons while posting) to see how it will look on your browser window. But that won't help you know how it will look on anyone else's. Mainly, just make sure you don't press enter/return until the end of a paragraph, and that's about the best you can do. ASUNDER 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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