Control tools only with pencil

[postmadesign]

In the latest beta, I have the preferences set to use only gestures with the fingers, but this option does not seem to work properly. When I use the pencil tool, I can still drag with my finger with this option enabled, which should not be the case IMO. This seems to be the case for all tools except the brush tool. I noticed the same bug in the affinity photo beta too

[Sean P]

Hi Postmadesign, this is a known issue that is with development. It does 'work', but unfortunately is currently only set to affect raster brush tools.

[Angelos58]

1 hour ago, postmadesign said:

In the latest beta, I have the preferences set to use only gestures with the fingers, but this option does not seem to work properly. When I use the pencil tool, I can still drag with my finger with this option enabled, which should not be the case IMO. This seems to be the case for all tools except the brush tool. I noticed the same bug in the affinity photo beta too

I think that the option means exactly that you “can” using the gesture only for gestures, select, drag, pinch, etc. but you “can’t” drawing with finger.

but maybe, I’m wrong

[postmadesign]

20 hours ago, Angelos58 said:

I think that the option means exactly that you “can” using the gesture only for gestures, select, drag, pinch, etc. but you “can’t” drawing with finger.

but maybe, I’m wrong

I think that with this setting turned on, the finger should only perform generic gestures like pinch to zoom, rotate and pan, or other multi finger gestures. In general it should ignore the single finger gestures, for example click and drag to create a shape, tap to use the pen tool, etc. In the case of some tools the finger modifiers can be used, but only in combination with the pencil. Otherwise a single finger should only be able to toggle buttons on the interface.

[Alfred]

3 minutes ago, postmadesign said:

I think that with this setting turned on, the finger should only perform generic gestures like pinch to zoom, rotate and pan, or other multi finger gestures. In general it should ignore the single finger gestures, for example click and drag to create a shape, tap to use the pen tool, etc. In the case of some tools the finger modifiers can be used, but only in combination with the pencil. Otherwise a single finger should only be able to toggle buttons on the interface.

I have an iPad Air 2, so I couldn’t use an Apple Pencil if I had one, but I’ve always understood the purpose of ‘Touch for gestures only’ to be prevention of accidental drawing if you happen to touch the canvas with a single finger. So you shouldn’t be able to draw with the Pencil Tool or drag out a shape, but you should be able to tap to select a tool or to toggle a button.

[Angelos58]

But ... is it so?