Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 You can set the aspect ratio lock button, then any change to H will also affect W by the same ratio. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 1 minute ago, Ben said: You can set the aspect ratio lock button, then any change to H will also affect W by the same ratio. But, you can't type root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 why not? try using "sqrt(x)" Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 3 minutes ago, Ben said: why not? try using "sqrt(x)" Didn't know that existed. Still tho, addition to transform panel can accelerate workflow. Max Basok 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 It's a balance between "accelerating workflow" for infrequent tasks, and adding UI clutter that the majority of people will never use. Currently, a lot can be achieved by putting formulae/expressions into a lot of the edit boxes on the transform panel and other places. Adding another box on a panel will only be a shortcut to doing exactly the same task. I've worked a lot on our expression parser, and added a lot more capabilities to it. Currently this is a big work in progress, and I'm holding it back from 1.7 until I'm happy with it. I'd also like to add some more involved UI for showing what the expressions can do, such as a function list, and some form of presets - though this is still very much in the concept stage. rubs, m.vlad and dominik 3 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 15 minutes ago, Ben said: why not? try using "sqrt(x)" Where we can find which function can we use in expressions? Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 8 minutes ago, Ben said: It's a balance between "accelerating workflow" for infrequent tasks, and adding UI clutter that the majority of people will never use. Currently, a lot can be achieved by putting formulae/expressions into a lot of the edit boxes on the transform panel and other places. Adding another box on a panel will only be a shortcut to doing exactly the same task. I've worked a lot on our expression parser, and added a lot more capabilities to it. Currently this is a big work in progress, and I'm holding it back from 1.7 until I'm happy with it. I'd also like to add some more involved UI for showing what the expressions can do, such as a function list, and some form of presets - though this is still very much in the concept stage. That's why I advice you (IF you want to implement it) to put it behind an "advanced" button like your grid and axis manager. Max Basok 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 4 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said: Where we can find which function can we use in expressions? It's partly documented in the help file, but that needs more work. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 15 minutes ago, Ben said: It's partly documented in the help file, but that needs more work. Do you plan to finished it in near future? Where it can be found in HELP file? Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 2 minutes ago, Petar Petrenko said: Do you plan to finished it in near future? Where it can be found in HELP file? Look up "expressions for field input" Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 Documenting the expression capabilities is not realistic since each input can have different constant or use different functions, so I'm looking at what we can do in UI to expose a context based assistant of some kind - again, this is just in the concept stage. Petar Petrenko 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 11 minutes ago, Ben said: Documenting the expression capabilities is not realistic since each input can have different constant or use different functions, so I'm looking at what we can do in UI to expose a context based assistant of some kind - again, this is just in the concept stage. !.8 foreshadowing? Also, you still have a lot of time until 1.7 dropped so *wink*. If it makes it too cluttered, can't you just put advanced button in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 Maybe, but until we do the first 1.7 Beta I can cram unpolished features in. As soon as 1.7 hits Beta it makes it harder to do features because they still have to be as close to final as possible. I especially have to be careful not to add features that we later change or retract that leave people's documents broken. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 2 minutes ago, Ben said: Maybe, but until we do the first 1.7 Beta I can cram unpolished features in. As soon as 1.7 hits Beta it makes it harder to do features because they still have to be as close to final as possible. I especially have to be careful not to add features that we later change or retract that leave people's documents broken. When does the beta will be published? I didn't know there is a beta version you can try before the update is released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted April 11, 2018 Author Staff Share Posted April 11, 2018 Not yet - we are still in 1.6 cycle. Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Oh okay, so probably in the middle of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 When you release the beta, will you still give out new features or will it be focused on bug fixing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Ooh! Rotate on a plane: that's 'prop-air' useful. It's like popping decals on a model kit. Nice Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 14 minutes ago, peter said: Ooh! Rotate on a plane: that's 'prop-air' useful. It's like popping decals on a model kit. Nice It sounds as though you’re thinking of a different kind of plane to rotate on, Peter! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubs Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 4 hours ago, Fatih19 said: When you release the beta, will you still give out new features or will it be focused on bug fixing? I hope... some new features, yes, but lots of important bugs fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 15 minutes ago, rubs said: I hope... some new features, yes, but lots of important bugs fixed. I took @Fatih19’s post to be asking whether version 1.7 would be essentially ‘feature complete’ once it reaches the public beta stage, or whether there might still be scope for new features to be added in response to issues raised during the beta. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 3 minutes ago, Alfred said: I took @Fatih19’s post to be asking whether version 1.7 would be essentially ‘feature complete’ once it reaches the public beta stage, or whether there might still be scope for new features to be added in response to issues raised during the beta. Yes, that's what I'm asking. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubs Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 20 minutes ago, Fatih19 said: Yes, that's what I'm asking. Yep. I believe the betas exist for refining and bug fixing, so I'm pretty confident there will be room for improvement. I'm just reminding the nice guys at Serif (again) that they first need to get their current features working before they implement new ones. There is a overwhelming amount of known bugs, serious flaws and performance problems in 1.6. Some of them were even introduced quite recently and are still not fixed to date. Gear maker and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoCentral Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Yep, fix them bugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 On 2/27/2018 at 6:35 PM, Ben said: Yes, it will be. I still maintain that snapping handles to grid positions is limiting as far as control of curves goes, but people insist it is important, so I'm adding it. You will be able to snap handles to anything that you can snap nodes to. But, the option will have to be turned on as an additional snapping option for the Node tool. This will work in addition to all the smart snaps I've added for setting handles directions and lengths. I'll do another video soon to show this... Soooo..... Is it done, Ben? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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