Cursor precision problem with multiple views

[Jun-hyeok Jang]

- Application : Affinity Designer

- Version : 2.6.0.3134 (App Store) WIndows 10.0.19045

- Very easy to reproduce - Here's reproduce steps on new document:

  1. Create a new document (A4 or anything)

  2. Create a small circle.

  3. View > New View then split the new view into a new window

      - The new view will serve as birds-eye view and main view (with toolbars and etc) will work as editing view.

      - Whether the new view into same monitor or external monitor is regardless.

  4. Set the birds-eye view zoom level as zoom-to-fit, Set the editing view zoom level as 500% to edit the small circle.

  5. Select Pencil tool and and turn on the stabilizer to see crosshair while drawing a new curve.

  6. Draw a line in edit area then modify the line using Node tool a bit

- Expected behaviour :

   - The crosshair size of pencil tool is consistant on both of view relative to their zoom level.

- Actual behaviour :

   - The size is not consistant - in editing view, the cursor and stabilizer length is too large to handle properly

   - Node tool is being also affected by this - the curve node mouse picking is very inaccurate and misses picking intent.

   - Workaround : Quickly zoom-in then out cures a brief time. But the error comes back when trying to modify a curve again.

   

[Jun-hyeok Jang]

The captured movie above could be a little bit misleading - the problem is not related to mouse cursor position. Windows+G captured it misaligned but there was no problem on the position of mouse cursor.

The problem here is that the size of crosshair and the length of stabilizer rope is not consistent.

[stokerg]

Hi @Jun-hyeok Jang,

Thanks for reporting this.

I've been able to replicate this and have logged it with the Developers to resolve  

[Jun-hyeok Jang]

Thank you @stokerg for your response!

More information:

- I have checked that this is windows desktop only problem.

It works as expected on my macbook (M1) without this problem. (2.6.0.3134 app store on macOS 15.4.0)