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Hi,

I'm a new user of Affinity Designer and already a big fan. While I personally have not detected a massive amount of new stuff in the recent update, I'm sure many users will welcome the additions. One thing I would like to see in future versions is some work on click proximity. Sometimes it seems like Affinity Designer will select any object in my design that has the remotest association with where I'm clicking, except the object I'm clicking directly on. Before anyone asks, no, I'm not trying to select a locked item. Going to Outline view is the only thing that helps sometimes and even then not always. Am I missing something?

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6 hours ago, Neil M said:

Sometimes it seems like Affinity Designer will select any object in my design that has the remotest association with where I'm clicking,

How about a demonstration?

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Hi Pšenda,

Thanks, I'll do that. It is intermittent. Next time I hit a stubborn one I'll record it. I overlay identical shapes sometimes and that's when it occurs. I though I might not be 'punching' thru correctly, but the I use the alt key and seems to punch through to overlays on simple objects. N

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi Pšenda,

Here is a movie of the click proximity issue. Here is a QuickTime .mov of the problem. I'm drawing a woman's hair, very simply. You'll see I'm clicking on a 'ringlet', the smallest object, that is behind the larger mass of hair on the right, but in front of a placed scan of a pencil sketch. So in reality the portion I'm clicking isn't 'behind' anything. The ringlet object isn't locked and I'm clicking with and without the alt key as it isn't actually overlayed by anything. Click, click, click – even on the outer vector rather than its fill  – no response. Most of the time when this happens I have to go to Outline view to get hold of it, as shown. Happens a lot. Maybe it's the scan behind that causes it. I don't know, but it adds up to half an hour to my day, or longer depending how layered the illustration is. Hope the attached works. N

 

 

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