AF2

[GeoffColl]

I often open more than a few photographs at a time.

I use the Dark Option for display.

Is there a way to more easily see which image I am looking at - as the title tabs are all the same colour, it's quite difficult to see which one is active...

Attachment to view...(ignore photo wip).

[walt.farrell]

34 minutes ago, GeoffColl said:

as the title tabs are all the same colour

The 4th tab from the left is a different color in your screenshot, but I agree the difference could be made more obvious.

You can try adjusting the Settings, User Interface, to see if adjusting any of the contrast-related settings will help that. But that's about your only option. This is an area where the Affinity applications definitely need work, on both Windows and macOS.

[GeoffColl]

Thanks Walt.

 

I have tried making some adjustments - but the Dark skin is a little overpowering and makes minimal difference.

If, however, I switch to the light skin there's no problem!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

My only other suggestion is to not open so many images at once. With smaller document tabs it can be harder to see the differences.

[GeoffColl]

Chuckles!

[thomaso]

9 hours ago, GeoffColl said:

Is there a way to more easily see which image I am looking at - as the title tabs are all the same colour, it's quite difficult to see which one is active...

While you cropped the Toolbar from your screenshot there is an option to display the currently active document's name as "Status" element. Unfortunately, the minimum/maximum width cannot be set, but is created automatically depending on the window width + the number of icons added to the toolbar. With an appropriate setting, many more characters will be displayed than are shown in your multiple tabs, for example:

If this field is not displayed in your Toolbar: Right click on the margin of the Toolbar -> choose "Customise Toolbar…" -> Drag the "Status" element to the wanted position in the Toolbar. [ -> eventually remove other elements to enable more width for this "Status". ]

[Twolane]

If it's possible, this is even worse in Win11. As far as I can tell there is no Status in Win11, either.

[thomaso]

26 minutes ago, Twolane said:

no Status in Win11

Odd. If I understand the "Status" element shown in the Help as a "function" of the Toolbar, then there should be one in Windows, too:

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On Windows and earlier versions of macOS, Affinity's toolbar and title bar are presented as separate elements but otherwise function the same.

[GeoffColl]

Thank you - That's a solution - but there ought to be some way of programming the view in such a way that a more

obvious colour can be used for the Active Tab (say User defined).

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, GeoffColl said:

there ought to be some way of programming the view in such a way that a more obvious colour can be used for the Active Tab (say User defined).

The low / bad / insufficient interface contrast gets commented quite frequently since years. Even if not user defined, it would help already if the font for the current tab would appear in a brighter colour or a bold font for instance.

Nevertheless, this might not help in your situation where all tabs show identical file name snippets "2024-08-2…". If you want to jump to the next or previous tab you might alternatively try the shortcut keys CTRL-Tab / CTRL-Shift-Tab.

[GeoffColl]

Aye, my naming convention doesn't help, but that's the nature of the beast I deal with....

 

Probably I should move to the light skin - though that causes its own issues with contrast.....

[GarryP]

Tip: If you use a title for the thread which is better-suited to the content then that’s better for people looking for questions they might be able to answer. Also, there’s no such official abbreviation as AF2 – Affinity Photo is usually abbreviated as AP, or APh.

[GeoffColl]

Oh! My bad!

[walt.farrell]

13 hours ago, thomaso said:

Odd. If I understand the "Status" element shown in the Help as a "function" of the Toolbar, then there should be one in Windows, too:

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On Windows and earlier versions of macOS, Affinity's toolbar and title bar are presented as separate elements but otherwise function the same.

Nothing in the Visual Reference is labeled Title Bar as far as I can see, but it should not be referring to the Status field which is optionally a part of the Toolbar on macOS, but not on Windows. And without something being labeled (or shown via Tooltip) as a Title Bar I have no idea what that Help statement means.

[thomaso]

5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Nothing in the Visual Reference is labeled Title Bar as far as I can see, but it should not be referring to the Status field which is optionally a part of the Toolbar on macOS, but not on Windows. And without something being labeled (or shown via Tooltip) as a Title Bar I have no idea what that Help statement means.

Sounds more odd to me. I don't have a title bar in mind, I just referred to the green marked part of this help quote regarding Affinity's Toolbar:

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On Windows and earlier versions of macOS, Affinity's toolbar and title bar are presented as separate elements but otherwise function the same.

… which, since every single toolbar element is a / corresponds with a "function", would mean that a "Status" field with this "same function" is available for Windows, too.

FWIW, in macOS the title bar is the bar at the top of a window and contains the 3 traffic-light buttons + a window title. In Affinity it gets displayed in the various 'Manager' windows for instance or in V1 -> Separated Mode -> Merge documents:

… whereas the macOS Finder and most (all?) apps with possibly multiple document windows (e.g. Preview or TextEdit) have a menu option to show/hide the Tab Bar if the active window contains 1 item only (e.g. finder window or opened document😞