A_B_C Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Hi everybody, I don’t know how you feel about this matter, but there is one annoying aspect when drawing shapes that become very small in one dimension, for instance, rectangles having at least one very short side. And this is the disappearing of the middle handle at small zoom levels. You will have to zoom to make this handle appear again, but by doing so, you will often lose the overview of your design. So you will have to stretch your shape a bit, zoom out, look at the entire canvas, zoom in, make further adjustments, zoom out … well, this is somewhat annoying. So what about adding “smart shape handles” that would provide a solution to this problem? I imagine them working like so: when the middle handle of a shape’s bounding box disappears at a certain zoom level and you approach this bounding box with the cursor at the respective side, an additional control area, as shown in my mockup, will pop out, presenting all three handles. As long as the cursor is inside that control area, the three handles would be visible, and the area would collapse, as soon as the cursor would leave it. What do you think? Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 14 minutes ago, A_B_C said: I don’t know how you feel about this matter, but there is one annoying aspect when drawing geometric shapes that become very small in one dimension, for instance, rectangles having at least one very short side. And this is the disappearing of the middle handle at small zoom levels. You will have to zoom to make this handle appear again, but by doing so, you will often lose the overview of your design. So you will have to stretch your shape a bit, zoom out, look at the entire canvas, zoom in, make further adjustments, zoom out … well, this is somewhat annoying. Hello @A_B_C, I came across this, too, from time to time and hope fore an improvement of this behaviour. Thankyou for bringing this up. d. A_B_C 1 Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikinger Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Good morning. in the meantime, have you tried: Display ->New view.? You Zoom in on one view and the other overview is accessible. Moving from a close-up view to an overview with a single click A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 Hi Wikinger, yes, that’s a good idea! But I believe it works better in Separate Mode. When you are using the Single Window Mode or consolidate all windows as tabs in Separate Mode, you will lose much of the benefit that comes with creating a New View. Nonetheless, a great idea. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 38 minutes ago, Wikinger said: Good morning. in the meantime, have you tried: Display ->New view.? You Zoom in on one view and the other overview is accessible. Moving from a close-up view to an overview with a single click Thank you @Wikinger for this idea. It works if one view is floated and the other one is in a Tab. I have to play around with it to see if this is a good workaround. Cheers, d. Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 11 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 2 hours ago, A_B_C said: As long as the cursor is inside that control area, the three handles would be visible, and the area would collapse, as soon as the cursor would leave it. Perhaps it would be a good magnifying glass (it should be more universal). Pressing the hotkey (toggling) would increase/decrease area under the cursor. Image is for illustrative purposes only - it magnifies only displayed pixels. Correct magnifying glass would redraw the displayed content with the corresponding details - that is with the middle handle. A_B_C 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikinger Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Je procède ainsi. Fenêtre..mp4 A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 Thank you, everybody … really good ideas … Yes, a magnifying glass would work as well, with a hot key assigned. There is actually a quite smart magnifying glass solution in Affinity Photo on the iPad. I wonder if something like this could be ported to Designer … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Yeah, really annoying when you want to move a shape but instead you accidentally resize it. A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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