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Is there a way to turn off the toggle-behaviour on tools?


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Does anybody here know if Affinity Designer (and Photo) are able to turn off the toggle-behaviour for tools shortcuts? Rightnow when, for example, I'm pressing the V-key Affinity toggles between the Move tool and the Rect tool (at the moment), but I'd like the V-key to always switch on the Move Tool (in this example). Is that possible?

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Hi wigglepixel,
The  latest Affinity Photo Customer Beta already has an option to turn this behaviour off in the Preferences. This should also be ported to the other apps of the suite in upcoming Betas. To turn in off go to Affinity Photo Preferences, Tools section and tick Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools.

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6 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi wigglepixel,
The  latest Affinity Photo Customer Beta already has an option to turn this behaviour off in the Preferences. This should also be ported to the other apps of the suite in upcoming Betas. To turn in off go to Affinity Photo Preferences, Tools section and tick Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools.

Thanks @MEB. I bumped into this some times now, so looking forward to be able to turn this behaviour off. Nice to see this is being addressed

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54 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi wigglepixel,
The  latest Affinity Photo Customer Beta already has an option to turn this behaviour off in the Preferences. This should also be ported to the other apps of the suite in upcoming Betas. To turn in off go to Affinity Photo Preferences, Tools section and tick Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools.

@MEB Rightnow I'm looking in the latest Photo beta, but it looks like this 'Use shift modifier to cycle tools' is something other than what I'm talking about, so I guess we're having a misunderstanding.

I'm not talking about 'cycling' through tools, but toggling a tool, so the tool goes on and off when hitting its shortcut key. So I guess my question remains: how to be able to let a hit on a shortcutkey for a tool ALWAYS activate that tool, no matter if it's activated or not, 'cause rightnow it's toggling on and off when hitting the same shortcut key.

Thanks

 

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Hi wigglepixel,
I did understood you. You are talking about the switch between the current and the last used tool behaviour. This behaviour should also be disabled when using the Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools setting, however in the current Customer Photo Beta it is not honouring it. This was already logged and should be fixed in an upcoming beta.

So to clear things up, both cycling through the tools of the same group and switch between current and last used tool behaviours should be disabled when you tick Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools setting (in upcoming betas).

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21 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi wigglepixel,
I did understood you. You are talking about the switch between the current and the last used tool behaviour. This behaviour should also be disabled when using the Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools setting, however in the current Customer Photo Beta it is not honouring it. This was already logged and should be fixed in an upcoming beta.

So to clear things up, both cycling through the tools of the same group and switch between current and last used tool behaviours should be disabled when you tick Use ⇧ modifier to cycle tools setting (in upcoming betas).

Ah I see. Than I was misinderstanding the label next to the checkbox. My bad. Thanks again

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go to Edit>Preferences>Tools>Use Shift key to cycle tool groups
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now to change tools, you have to press the shift key and  the key you wanted to use to switch the tool.

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