Guide drag using the Node Tool (besides the Move Tool)

[begem0t]

Guides can be dragged by Move Tool, but not by Node Tool.

 

This seems counter-intuitive and inconvenient to me. Also, this limitation is unique to AD.

 

Is it possible to make Node Tool drag the guides too, please?

[MEB]

Hi begem0t,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Currently this is working as intended (i mean it isn't a bug) however i do recognise it's limitations.

I'm moving this thread to the Feature Requests section so this can be considered as an improvement to the existing functionality.

Thanks for your feedback.

[Jonopen]

For info you can double click a guide with the Node Tool which changes it to the Move Tool.

[begem0t]

Thanks for the response, MEB.

 

@Jonopen, indeed, AD has very smart way of between Node and Move tool. I feel that it has huge potential, but up to this point I'm not able to use it intuitively (in other words, it's often in the wrong mode for me :) ).

 

If we move away from the damn Adobe paradigm, the whole separation to Move and Node tool is outdated. I can see why it was deemed necessary towards the end of last millenium ;) but I don't think this functionality is reasonable today.

 

That said, imagine the user screams if Affinity were to merge both tools into one, no matter how useful and convenient.

 

Anyway, AD is a great tool - big thanks to the team!

[Alfred]

Guides can be dragged by Move Tool, but not by Node Tool.

 

This seems counter-intuitive and inconvenient to me. Also, this limitation is unique to AD.

 

Is it possible to make Node Tool drag the guides too, please?

 

It is indeed counter-intuitive and inconvenient. However, it is (sadly) not unique to AD.