ZufDraw Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaftwo Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Since the program obviously already saves the current configuration upon exiting and loads that configuration upon starting, all that's needed is code to "save configuration as" and "load configuration". Why is that so difficult? (✿◕‿◕✿) thomaso and PaulEC 2 Quote (05mar2020) Ryzen 1800x, Gigabyte AX370 K7, Samsung 970 EVO+ 1TB NVME-M.2 SSD, EVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G2 PS, Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR4 3200 Mem, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 442.50 (01mar20), LG Ultra HD (2), Win 10 Pro x64 18363.657, Affinity Photo/Designer 1.8.1.604 beta & Publisher 1.8.2.603 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 4 hours ago, jaftwo said: Since the program obviously already saves the current configuration upon exiting and loads that configuration upon starting, all that's needed is code to "save configuration as" and "load configuration". Why is that so difficult? (✿◕‿◕✿) Something a delay in implementation is not due to something being difficult, but merely to it having a low priority among all the other things that Serif is working on. Or, sometimes, it really is more difficult than we might realize, since we can't see the code In this case, Serif have said that we should watch for an implementation of studio presets in the 1.9 beta. With luck that will satisfy this request. ianrb 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: not due to something being difficult, but merely to it having a low priority (...) more difficult than we might realize, since we can't see the code I understand this thought concerning priority and effort for bug solutions. ... But compared to the complexity of the new "New..." window an UI for saved panel sets appears... Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZufDraw Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Fingers crossed. I recently lost my layers panel and had to reset my (meticulously created custom made.. ;0) layout.. About priority, I agree there are more important issues. Like Contiguous filling with all layers (and one that does not crash on big files) ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaftwo Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: Something a delay in implementation is not due to something being difficult, but merely to it having a low priority among all the other things that Serif is working on. Or, sometimes, it really is more difficult than we might realize, since we can't see the code In this case, Serif have said that we should watch for an implementation of studio presets in the 1.9 beta. With luck that will satisfy this request. Yes, I understand that and realize my post was a bit "pushy". This request is three pages long and was started in 2017. I'll have a look at how the config is saved now and make a backup script to restore it for now. ianrb 1 Quote (05mar2020) Ryzen 1800x, Gigabyte AX370 K7, Samsung 970 EVO+ 1TB NVME-M.2 SSD, EVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G2 PS, Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR4 3200 Mem, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 442.50 (01mar20), LG Ultra HD (2), Win 10 Pro x64 18363.657, Affinity Photo/Designer 1.8.1.604 beta & Publisher 1.8.2.603 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 18 minutes ago, jaftwo said: I'll have a look at how the config is saved now and make a backup script to restore it for now. In case you are in Windows this might help: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/93612-windows-spaceman-workspace-manager-for-affinty/ ianrb 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaftwo Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 15 minutes ago, thomaso said: In case you are in Windows this might help: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/93612-windows-spaceman-workspace-manager-for-affinty/ Thanks, I'll give it a look. However, if the developers of Photo change the format of the xml code, it may not work, so keeping a backup of WindowProfile.xml is the way go for now. Quote (05mar2020) Ryzen 1800x, Gigabyte AX370 K7, Samsung 970 EVO+ 1TB NVME-M.2 SSD, EVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G2 PS, Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR4 3200 Mem, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 442.50 (01mar20), LG Ultra HD (2), Win 10 Pro x64 18363.657, Affinity Photo/Designer 1.8.1.604 beta & Publisher 1.8.2.603 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoprzero Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 +1 To saving an interface layouts. Adding to that, sharing the layouts in round-tripping. If I set up my interface in Photo with a bunch of my palettes on my second monitor I would also like it if that information was a global pref that Publisher can read. It's annoying when I'm in Publisher and I click on the Photo button and all of my palettes that were arranged with care are no longer in place. I'm back to the default UI for Photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_WW Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) On 5/19/2020 at 4:00 PM, thomaso said: In case you are in Windows this might help: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/93612-windows-spaceman-workspace-manager-for-affinty/ I'd just like to confirm I've tried this Spaceman program on Windows (with Photo) and it runs fine, but there are a few points to it working: You need to exit your current Affinity window to "save" your existing layout. Then run the spaceman.bat (don't run as admin, it doesn't need it) Save the backup as whatever you like, but it's best not to use spaces. For example, I named mine: affinity-photo-workspace-1 Open Affinity again and if you want to test the backup works, go to Views > Studio > Reset Studio Run the spaceman.bat again and restore the backup you created (NB. This doesn't work on MacOS) Remember that in the same place (probably Downloads) you opened the spaceman.bat and created the backup, there will be a folder called "Workspaces". You need to make sure that is in the same location when you open spaceman.bat to restore the workspace backup (but spaceman.bat shouldn't be in the Workspaces folder) To keep it simple, I created a folder in Program Files called Affinity Spaceman (like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\Affinity Spaceman), see image: Edited June 7, 2020 by D_WW Edit1: Added Quote to Spaceman link. Edit2: Made instructions clearer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snap Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Is this a feature yet? It's mid 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Snap said: Is this a feature yet? It's mid 2020 Serif have hinted they've implemented something in 1.9, but we don't know for sure when the beta for that release will be available. ianrb 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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