![]() ![]() I might survive without being able to map my functions to them (not yet sure) ^_^ or might request it as a new feature later. I understand about number keys, thanks for explaining. ![]() My preference would be either a higher contrast or color background change, or possibly something even more obvious & hard to miss like an outline around the selected tool or inverting its icon's colors when it is selected. There has been a lot of discussion about this difficulty & workarounds suggested for reducing it, but so far none I find very useful. For many of us, this is not always true because a selected tool in the Tools panel is indicated only by a change in its background color from a lighter grey to a darker one, a low contrast change which is easy to miss. However, because it is crucial that users are always fully aware of which 'tool state' the app is in (IOW, which tool is currently selected) to take advantage of this feature, the UI should make this as obvious as possible. Personally, I think there is nothing in itself wrong with this. Otherwise, it can drive you crazy because it changes the logic of the tool selection keyboard shortcuts from absolute to state-dependent. This can be a very useful feature - for example, it reduces the need to assign keyboard shortcuts to all of the tools or to remember which ones you might have to set to require modifier keys - but only if you can get used to this behavior. Some tools have a 'last tool' toggle that allows you to quickly switch between that tool & the last one used (as with the Move or Node tools) or an 'alternate tool' toggle (as with the Flood Fill & Gradient tools) activating by pressing the tool's assigned shortcut while it is selected. There are also some other things built into the keyboard shortcut logic that cannot be overridden. You could ask for a way to override this in the Feature Request section but of course there is no guarantee it will ever be implemented. (For example, to set opacity to 60% you press 6 once but you can set it to 66% by pressing 6 twice rapidly.) This cannot be overridden, I suppose because it requires dedicated programming logic to implement this feature. Setting opacity with the number keys is unusual in that they are both single & two key press shortcuts. ![]() I'd really like to get confident about custom keyboard shortcuts behaving the way one would expect them to work. when I press it several times, it activates different tools in a way that doesn't seem to make any sense to me. What I would like to learn is: when I press a key I have assigned to a single function (there is no symbol next to the shortcut in preferences) and I press that key, sometimes it activates another tool instead. My trial period of Affinity Photo will be shortly over and I can not tell for sure yet whether I will be able to use my custom keyboard shortcuts efficiently. So that would mean that at present there is no way to "unbind" the numeric keys from setting opacity and assign any other function to them? Do you think I could request this in the Feature Requests Forum? To me not being able to map my own functions to the number keys is a great loss.īut even more than that I'm concerned about the behaviour I described in my second post. Not all key combinations can be changed, but if the item is on any of the menus (File, Edit, View, etc.) it should have an entry in the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences in the same subgroup (like Draw > View) that you can change. ![]()
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