Missing some all-time handy features

[Roberto1972]

Practical PhotoPlus (sorry) behavior: Ctrl V for pasting clipboard as new image and Ctrl L for pasting clipboard as new layer, both I use all the time but doesn't seem to work in Affinity Designer. There's a keyboard shortcut for just new from clipboard but it requires two hands and a foot (Ctrl Shift Alt N ). I really dislike keyboard shortcuts involving three or more buttons. Not sure yet if it's possible to paste as layer at all.

 

Also, always a bottleneck since each and every program supports either one or the other: drawing a marquee to select objects: some programs select everything the marquee surrounds and others select anything it touches.

I wish to have both options e.g. using a keyboard key while dragging the marquee. Often when zoomed in not all objects fit in the window while I like to include them in the selection.

 

Roberto

[MEB]

Hi Roberto,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

I agree the shortcut for pasting from the Clipboard to a new document is awkward. You can change it in the Keyboard Shortcuts section in the Preferences: set the first dropdown to Draw and the second to File - its the second item in the list below. You can use the regular ⌃(ctrl) V to paste to a new layer.

 

Regarding the marquee to select objects, currently you can change the behaviour in the Tools section (Preferences) to select all objects touched by the selection marquee but there's no way to switch between them through a modifier key (this is already possible - see Chris_k reply below).

[Chris_K]

HI Roberto

 

As you have pointed out we do have both options albeit under a different name. Whilst the default shortcut is quite chunky you are able to customise it in the keyboard shortcuts in the preferences dialog to something that suits you better. 

 

For the marquee selecting behaviour we actually do have both. You can switch between behaviours in the tools section of the preferences, or when draging out the marquee you can hold the right mouse button and it will select objects the marquee touches rather than full encompasses 

 

Cheers

[Roberto1972]

Ow! That's one I didn't try; using the mouse :-P It's a bit getting used to but an excellent 'quick access' example ...it's totally Serif style! ;-)

Thanks for the info!

 

As for the shortcuts: New from clipboard is now Alt+N that one wasn't reserved yet.

 

Looked for creating macro's (create new layer - paste) for clipboard to layer but it seems macro's aren't supported (yet?).

 

Roberto

[Mark Ingram]

Moving to Questions forum.

[R C-R]

For the marquee selecting behaviour we actually do have both. You can switch between behaviours in the tools section of the preferences, or when draging out the marquee you can hold the right mouse button and it will select objects the marquee touches rather than full encompasses 

Since this is now in the questions forum, for the benefit of Mac users reading this, the right button click won't work for this (because it is the same as a Control-click, which immediately brings up the OS X contextual menu).

 

What does work, is to click to start the drag & then hold down the Control key. That always trips me up!

 

Also, this temporarily reverses whichever preference setting is in effect, so if that is set to select anything the marquee touches, the Control or right click temporarily changes it to selecting only fully enclosed objects. It is very handy ... if you can remember how to use it.  :wacko: