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Layer Lock on nested Layers


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The layers lock appears not to have any effect to layers which are nested as sub-layers. They become transformed when their parent layer gets transformed.

Here an example within a text layer, in which the objects inside become undesirably stretched:

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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Ah, yes, lock children does work as expected. Thank you, fde101!

– But then, what is the layers lock supposed to lock? The help text made me think it would prevent transforms.

   " To lock a layer (or layer object): (...)
Select Lock/Unlock again or use the Layer menu's Unlock item, to allow the layer contents or object to be transformed again."

That seems to work when I select locked layers only but not with their parent layer selected.

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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Yes, I believe that your interpretation is correct in general, but I'm not sure if it is intentional that it is not impacting child layers or if that is a bug.  I could easily see this going either way, so someone from the Affinity team might need to speak to that one.

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  • 4 weeks later...

As I understand it, reading the help manual, Lock is suppose to prevent any alteration to the layer/object. I’ve found employing Lock only prevents it from being  transformed, while still alllowing other alterations such as color changes and FX to be applied. This could be a bug or a wrongly written definition within the manual. 

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