Affinity Photo shortcuts for next/previous window don't work

[John74]

The keyboard shortcuts for Next Window (Ctrl+Tab) and Previous Window (Ctrl+Shift+Tab) don't work as expected.

 

When I have multiple photos open, I would expect Ctrl+Tab to bring me to the next photo in order shown in the tab bar. However, what it actually does is switch back and forth between the current tab/photo and the most-recently-selected tab/photo. To re-create the issue:

1. Open several photos. In my case I have opened "1", "2", "3", and "4"
2. Click on photo 4 in the tab bar to view it.
3. Click on photo 2 in the tab bar to view it.
4. Now press Ctrl+Tab over and over. It will switch back and forth between photos 4 and 2, and it will never switch to photos 1 or 3.

 

Ctrl+Shift+Tab has an even stranger behavior. It seems to cycle between all open tabs/photos, but in the order that they were most-recently viewed (for example, by clicking on the tab for the photo).

 

Can this please be fixed so that Ctrl+Tab cycles through all tabs in their currently-displayed order and Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycles through them in reverse order? This is how this type of keyboard shortcut works in web browsers and other tab-based programs.

 

Affinity Photo version: 2.5.7

OS: Windows 10 22H2

[John74]

This is mostly fixed in release version 2.6.0. As long as the user does not move any tabs out of the order they were originally opened/created in, the shortcuts work as expected. However, if the user moves a tab, the shortcuts still cycle through the tabs in the order they were originally in, instead of the order they are now in. I feel that it would make more sense to cycle through the tabs in the order they are presently shown.

I have tested this both with my regular Affinity install on Windows 10, and by doing a fresh install of Affinity in a test VM of Windows 10.