Cannot assign certain keyboard shortcuts

[Juhani]

I'm trying to map ⌘esc as a keyboard shortcut for Deselect (like it is in Sketch). Affinity Photo maps it as ⌘⎋ but when I hit ⌘esc it does not work. Neither does ⇧esc or ⌃esc. Can you please make the esc key available for shortcut mapping?

[Old Bruce]

11 hours ago, Juhani said:

I'm trying to map ⌘esc as a keyboard shortcut for Deselect (like it is in Sketch). Affinity Photo maps it as ⌘⎋ but when I hit ⌘esc it does not work. Neither does ⇧esc or ⌃esc. Can you please make the esc key available for shortcut mapping?

Oddly here on my Mac if I don't change anythign in the Shortcuts the Escape key on its own will deselect everything, as will the default Command + D.

[HCl]

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[ironchestgames]

I have the exact same problem as OP. macbook 2022 m2, Sequioa, Affinity Designer 2.5.7.

Escape does nothing for me, it's not good for keeping productivity. I expect escape to deselect current input field/tool/panel/whatever and get me back to Move tool. Instead nothing happens.

[Juhani]

Yes, still waiting for this very much.

On 11/26/2024 at 12:43 AM, Old Bruce said:

Oddly here on my Mac if I don't change anythign in the Shortcuts the Escape key on its own will deselect everything, as will the default Command + D.

Sometimes Esc deselects currently selected object or cancels a dialog box at the foreground but sometimes it doesn't. In fact it's very inconsistent and unpredictable. Also, when you have an active cursor in a text box you need multiple Esc key hits (I think 3) to deselect everything, while the Cmd+D deselects everything immediately. This would be still fine if Cmd+Esc programmed as the master Edit>Deselect would work, but at the moment it does not.