"Lock Children" missing

[ennerdale]

I want to move and resize an image within its frame, without altering the frame size. The manual says to do this by Selecting "Lock Children" from the context menu when the frame is selected with the Move tool. But... no "Lock Children" option is visible. Where is it?

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @ennerdale.

The context menu is the menu that appears when you right-click. The ‘Lock Children’ option should be displayed on the Context toolbar.

What is your OS? On Windows you can toggle visibility of the Context toolbar via the View menu.

[markw]

Hello ennerdale,
I’m not sure which Affinity app you are using but the UI is pretty much the same throughout. My screenshot’s from Publisher.
Sometimes there’s not enough room for everything in the Context Toolbar if that happens then you will get a ‘chevron’ icon at far right of the context bar.
If you click on that you can see the things that couldn’t be fitted in, like Lock Children.

[ennerdale]

Hi Markw,

Thanks for picking this up.

It's Publisher I'm using. I have a wide monitor, so plenty of space for the context toolbar to show Lock Children. But the last item I get is Concert to Curves. Locked Children should appear after that, but doesn't, as you see below...

[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, ennerdale said:

It's Publisher I'm using. I have a wide monitor, so plenty of space for the context toolbar to show Lock Children. But the last item I get is Concert to Curves. Locked Children should appear after that, but doesn't, as you see below...

It looks to me like you have simply Placed an Image in your document, but the instructions you're looking at are for an image in a Picture Frame.

Without the Picture Frame, there's no Lock Children button, and no need for one as there are no children.

[ennerdale]

Thanks Walt, that's very helpful. I now understand how this works.

 

Richard