Confusing menu structure

[Gmit]

Hello,
i found a confusing interface desicion (?) in the view menu.
At first i thought it wouldn´t work until i discovered it expands to the left.
While the indicator points to the right, and everything else expands to the right.
Is that intentionally?

Yes i am using the newest version of publisher and windows.

[carl123]

If there is no room to expand a menu item to the right on your monitor it will automagically expand it to the left

It's a Windows thing, nothing to do with Publisher as such

[Gmit]

The Problem here is it, that it has plenty room to the right. More than 4x the necessary space.  Additionally "View Mode" is the only one which expands to the left. "Studio" for example expands to the right and it´s way bigger.

5 minutes ago, carl123 said:

If there is no room to expand a menu item to the right on your monitor it will automagically expand it to the left

It's a Windows thing, nothing to do with Publisher as such

 

[carl123]

On your screenshot your "View" menu looks very close to the Tools panel like you have the application reduced in size.

Can you upload a full size screenshot (like mine below)  Showing the View > View Mode menu expanded
 
Also what version of Windows are you running and what is your screen resolution?

[MEB]

Hi Gmit,
Welcome to Affinity Forums

Check this setting please:
1. open the Control Panel. (Classic View)
2. click on the Tablet PC Settings icon
3. under the Handedness, select the correct setting

[MickRose]

There is a similar thing going on with Text/Insert. I think this has been noted before.

[MickRose]

Thanks MEB. Changing Tablet PC Settings to Left-handed puts the Bullet, Dagger etc back on the right where it should be. Presumably that is a small bug in the Windows software.

[Gmit]

Thanks MEB,

yeah that solved it for me too, interesting what settings there are and how they can have this kind of bug.
Where it sometimes does it one way, and than the opposite way.

[walt.farrell]

28 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi Gmit,
Welcome to Affinity Forums

Check this setting please:
1. open the Control Panel. (Classic View)
2. click on the Tablet PC Settings icon
3. under the Handedness, select the correct setting

But shouldn't that affect all the submenus, not just a single one as the OP reported?

Affecting just one like that, is the bug in Windows or in the Affinity application?

[MEB]

I'm still checking what's going on.

[Gmit]

I just checked, the setting is only available on my notebook with touchscreen. So if i had the same problem on the desktop that would be difficult^^
On my notebook it was set to right handed, when i changed it to left handed the problem is gone.

[walt.farrell]

36 minutes ago, Gmit said:

I just checked, the setting is only available on my notebook with touchscreen

It's also available on my desktop with a drawing tablet attached.

[GarryP]

I had the same problem in Publisher where the sub-menus went to the left by default unless there wasn't room for them.
I don't have a tablet computer and I couldn't see any Tablet PC options in Control Panel.
However, when I plugged my drawing tablet in (hadn't used it in ages) I could then find the settings and change them.
After I removed the drawing tablet the menus stayed as I would expect (to the right).
Publisher is the only bit of software where I had this issue so it seems like Publisher is the only one that actually did things right. This may be why it was unexpected.