UI problem: tab through input fields invokes Toggle UI

[woefi]

I use separated mode and as someone told me in the Affinity Designer-Forum, this mode is officially considered broken.

This needs to be addressed, as it should be an "easy" thing to repair. Yeah I really mean this.

First: as I found out in Designer, the transform palette (even in publisher) has the wrong order when "tabbing" through them to key in your values – it should be: x > y > width > height, not x > width > y > height.

Second: the CMYK-palette goes completely bananas: I type in my cyan-value, press tab and the magenta-field is highlighted but as I type a number this keypress is recognized by other parts of the program.. then when I tab again i invoke "Toggle-UI" which is set to TAB (as it works in Indesign well enough without these issues...) 

[R C-R]

11 hours ago, woefi said:

First: as I found out in Designer, the transform palette (even in publisher) has the wrong order when "tabbing" through them to key in your values – it should be: x > y > width > height, not x > width > y > height.

FWIW, for me in Photo, Designer, & Publisher beta, the tab order is x > y > w > h, & where applicable then r > s, & then it cycles back again. Also, Shift-Tab reverses the order.

[woefi]

I‘m sorry but did you try that in „separaded mode“ ?

what I‘m saying is that I experience my problems there, 'cause I‘m not gonna switch back and forth. And if it only happens here, of course they need to know so they can fix it. 

[woefi]

OK now I tried it with standard mode. Still the same.

Screenshots below in order of keypress: A tab B tab C tab D tab E tab F: (this is in standard mode, macOS Sierra, german keyboard)

First field X:

Second Field W:

third field: Y

forth Height

5. constraints icon highlighted

6th time pressing Tab:  Toggle UI!

[Chris_K]

Hi Woefi

Thanks for raising this. They are issues we already have logged for Designer so I have updated our report to include publisher too

[woefi]

I have now discovered, that I originally changed a setting in macOS Sierra, which I had already forgotten: <screenshot 1>

It's a sort-of accessibility-setting which is in "System Settings App" > "Keyboard", the tab called "Shortcuts". It helped me to TAB through all controls of dialogs including cancel-button. They all are then indicated by the blue FOCUS and activated by space-bar.

1) Now, when disabled (set to systemdefault) I'm able to reach the third row in the transform-palette -> Rotate and Skew - Woohoo!

2) But in the colour-palette using CMYK values I can not enter a value for magenta: First I enter cyan, then try to TAB to magenta but a subsequent number is interpreted as the affinity-opacity-shortcut! <screenshot 2 video>

3) Additionally, testing random other palettes, I recognized, that the sequence of Character/Positioning And Transform is weird, too. (You can't tab away from V/A Kerning to Tracking, but you can tab from Shear to HorizScale to VertScale, which seams to be grouped...