Affinity Photo 2.5.5 - Crash when changing the layer blending modes

[Alex_M]

Hi. Affinity Photo 2.5.5 crashes when changing the layer blending modes. A colleague of mine who is still on version 2.5.3 doesn't experience this issue. Below are the steps to reproduce this and a video I recorded:

1. Start Affinity photo 2.5.5.
2. Open a document that contains at least one layer.
3. Click on the layer blending modes selector with the middle mouse button.
4. Scroll down with the mouse wheel.

 

 

[walt.farrell]

What do you expect clicking on the Blend Mode dropdown with the middle mouse button to do? (In other words, how is that button configured?) It would be more usual to click with the left button, in my experience, and with my mouse, a middle-button click is a Ctrl+click, which I would not expect to work at all.

Next, how does it behave for you if you actually select a layer before trying to change its Blend Mode? I see in your video that nothing is selected.

What release of Windows do you use?

[Alex_M]

Interesting. I tried this again today and it doesn't cause a crash now. Go figure.

I normally do this to quickly scroll through the blending modes without having to expand the list first.

I use Windows 10 Pro x64 version 22H2.

[MEB]

Hi @Alex_M,
I've tested it here and couldn't replicate the issue. If you do this frequently and it has never crashed before, it was probably a one-time glitch.

[Ron P.]

I can replicate that easily. AP crashes every time I click on the Blend Mode box using my middle mouse wheel/button. After reading Alex_M's post, is the first time I've done this. I always Left-click, then use my scroll wheel to scroll through them.

Attached 2 Crash dumps.

FWIW, I use a Logi MX Master 3S mouse.

4d74d612-533b-4ce3-b7d0-98df0abbe21d.dmp 5534a18c-5685-4fdc-80e0-7908cf927c1e.dmp

[MEB]

Thanks for checking/crash dumps @Ron P.

@Ron P., @Alex_M I've replicated this now. Can you please check if you can make it crash in Affinity Photo? Thank you.

[Ron P.]

@MEB, Yes I can get it to crash in AP and AD.

FWIW, I tested this is the Beta versions of AP & AD, they did not crash. Something perhaps fixed it in the Beta?

aead9468-e438-46e0-88be-88efec9301e9.dmp c878a64e-b6b5-43be-9062-cfc9e4d758c5.dmp

[MEB]

Thanks @Ron P..
I still managed to crash the Beta once. The retail seems to crash way more easily. Will have to take another look later.