affinity designer Lines can't be turned off

[Frank Jonen]

Lines can't be turned off for active objects.

 

Problems this causes: 

• Accurate colour decisions can't be made while an object is selected. 
• Myriads of unnecessary clicks to constantly deselect, select, call up the tool again, adjust the value, da capo.
• Accurate placements to non snapping objects because it's impossible to see past the UI edge overlay.

 

Given the problems this causes, I think it qualifies as a bug. Also arrow key movements with the hand tool selected were once possible (so the outline overlay isn't in the way), but then it got broken.

[Aammppaa]

Hold spacebar to temporarily hide the outline <- Should help with some of your concerns.

 

Also ensure that Hide Selection Whilst Dragging is enabled, for the alignment issue.

[Chris_K]

As Aammppaa has suggested Hide selection whilst dragging on the context toolbar will solve you issue when moving an object. The rest is more of a feature request than a bug some I;m moving this to the relevant section to be considered