10on12 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 When I select a text frame - generally that means I either want to move the frame or amend the text. When I move out of the frame - that should mean I'm finished working with the text/frame. I do NOT want to create yet another text frame by default!!!!. 9/10 I want to select it or something else on the page. The whole 'esc' -> V thing is very tiresome. Please give us a way to select the frame - either by clicking on the edge of the frame (tool becomes an arrow/select), by using a keystroke (cmd) or moving out of the frame automatically changes the tool to an arrow. Text selection.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted October 24, 2014 Staff Share Posted October 24, 2014 It's worth posting this suggestion in the Feature Request section here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Don't be adobe. Suggesting something should be somewhere means more effort for the poster. Someone at Affinity should be doing the curation work, and crediting the original source of an idea in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I've moved the post. I'm afraid I'm not completely sure what it is the program is doing wrong for you. If you have the Frame tool active and you want to select a different object, you should be able to just click it. If you want to move the current text object, you can use the Frame tool to drag its border. You can also the object's handles to resize or rotate it. About the only thing you can't do with it is a marquee-select, because dragging with the Frame tool is how we create new frames. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 If you're using an arrow (V key) to select objects and edit them, and then you double click in a text box to edit its text, then click outside of that text box, you draw a new paragraph text box. 10on12 is suggesting that because he started with the V key tool, that after he's done editing the text inside the frame text box, he'd like to click outside of that box via the V tool without having to somehow esc from that frame text tool before being able to continue working. In other words, the double click to enter the text frame and edit its content shouldn't change the currently selected tool, just permit editing of the textual content of the frame text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Harris Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Ah, that makes more sense. I was missing the double-click part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00Ghz Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 If you're using an arrow (V key) to select objects and edit them, and then you double click in a text box to edit its text, then click outside of that text box, you draw a new paragraph text box. 10on12 is suggesting that because he started with the V key tool, that after he's done editing the text inside the frame text box, he'd like to click outside of that box via the V tool without having to somehow esc from that frame text tool before being able to continue working. In other words, the double click to enter the text frame and edit its content shouldn't change the currently selected tool, just permit editing of the textual content of the frame text. I agree. This is nice to have Quote UI Designer, CG Artist Macbook Pro 15" 2014 2.5 Ghz, 750M https://www.behance.net/VladMafteiuScai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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