Transform x,y fails to apply on a per artboard basis??

[Msmeraglia]

When working with multiple artboards the x,y does not respect individial art boards aka when selecting from within the artboard to the right of the screen, i would expect the x,y to be 0,0 if the cursor is in the corner of the artboard as the Ruler would imply, however its showing the x offset from the left-most artboard aka 3196 px in the screenshot attached

[GarryP]

The position and size which is shown in the Transform Panel is for the pixel selection which you have active.

I believe that the position/size of the pixel selection is ‘Artboard-agnostic’ and should be in relation to the entire document rather than any Artboard or other layer.

[Msmeraglia]

Right that's what I'm getting at, I probably should have prefaced this is all for pixel work. I would still call this a bug IMO, because I would expect the transform units to be based on the artboard I'm currently working in. Having it be relative to whichever random artboard is the up-most and left-most doesn't really make much sense and is completely unintuitive, again especially because the ruler is already adapting to whichever board I'm in (see screenshot) It's not useful in anyway shape or form to know the x/y units the way its currently set up

[GarryP]

I don’t think this is a bug because of how the Affinity software works in this regard.

The pixel selection is specified in document-pixels and as such the position is relative to the whole document, not just the layer you happen to have selected at any time (and an Artboard is just a layer, albeit a special one).

My guess is that part of reason for this could be that the selection has to be ‘compatible’ across the different Affinity document types: documents without Artboards (canvas-only); documents with Artboards; and documents with Pages.

You can certainly argue against that but if you would like the situation to change then I would suggest creating a request thread in the relevant area of the forums (searching for any existing one first, and adding a link to this discussion). Then Serif can look at the suggestion and see if they think it’s something worth changing.