How can you prevent objects from moving when they are placed in higher-level objects?

[LEB]

Hi all,

I still do not understand why objects placed in higher-level objects move to be centred.

Please see video.

I would expect the red dot to stay in place when placed in the rectangle.

Can this be prevented?

LEB

[DuncanL]

Are you using picture frames for a reason?  The positioning features are how they are supposed to work.  Normal shapes do not behave like that.
 

[thomaso]

I also think this is coded "by design" and meant as feature especially for Picture Frames rather than an issue or limitation.

You can influence the nesting position within the frame with the 9 anchor points, for instance top left. – Interestingly, once you repositioned a nested resource as wanted and drag another object onto this Picture Frame layer, the new object maintains position + size of the previous child object (…while this predecessor seems to be 'simply' deleted from the document by APub for unknown reason, as if the "Replace" button in the Context Toolbar was pressed for the first image).

[LEB]

Hi @DuncanL. Can you explain me what is the difference between what you do and what I am doing? I am confused.

[GarryP]

In your video you are trying to (as far as I understand it) clip the red dot inside a Picture Frame and that’s not what Picture frames are there for. (Picture Frames have the big black cross going through them when they don’t contain an image.)

You should probably be using a Rectangle shape instead, as shown in the bottom of the document in DuncalL’s video.

[LEB]

Got it!

I never realised they were behaving differently.

Thank you all.

[thomaso]

36 minutes ago, GarryP said:

clip the red dot inside a Picture Frame and that’s not what Picture frames are there for.

Hm? – To me it appears Picture Frames are in particular to clip objects, providing an additional interface for scaling + positioning the child layer… regardless of their layer type, which may be vector shapes, curves, text or even native Affinity documents or other container file formats … while any closed vector curve(s) object can become a Picture Frame.

[Oufti]

5 hours ago, DuncanL said:

Are you using picture frames for a reason?  The positioning features are how they are supposed to work.  Normal shapes do not behave like that.

Is it only here that I see the video as an old ZX81 one? 
Is it due to the codec used?

[DuncanL]

4 minutes ago, Oufti said:

Is it only here that I see the video as an old ZX81 one? 
Is it due to the codec used?

If it was ZX81 it would only be in black and white..   That's a bit Spectrum-ish but the wrong colour palette - more C64 like...

Anyway;  I suspect it is a codec issue with the Mac I'm afraid  - it's fine on my Windows sysem (wher it weas recorded) and I assume GarryP and LEB could see it fine, since they commented on the content - I don't know what they're using..

[GarryP]

15 hours ago, DuncanL said:

I assume GarryP and LEB could see it fine, since they commented on the content - I don't know what they're using.

If it helps, I watched the video directly in the website in the Chrome browser on Windows 10.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, GarryP said:

If it helps, I watched the video directly in the website in the Chrome browser on Windows 10.

I was using Safari on a Mac & could see also the videos directly on this page.