Quick transparency (keys 0-9)
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A great idea from Affinity:
Once an object is selected entering ie 20 directly sets the transparency to 20%. Simple. Enter 100 to restore no transparency. NO Enter key needed. Just type the desired number - instant feedback from interface. Timeout value in code is very low so you can enter 20 40 60 with very short delays to check out those values. Almost no delay. And not 060 for 60% - just 60.
No need to fumle with mouse and find transparency panel - no need to use it at all unless the layer mode needs to be changed to luminosity or multiply etc. It simply is so much faster to work with transparency directly this way. It speeds up certain workflows so much.
Should it in any way collide with current functionality I hope it can at least be implemented via the numeric keypad on a real keyboard. But it would be a shame if laptop owners and others with no keypad couldn't get the feature.
In any case - if implemented please also for the numeric keypad.
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@Ingolf This is also a feature found in your beloved Illustrator
I agree it should be feature in VS as well
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@Ingolf Added to the backlog.
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@Boldline said in Quick transparency (keys 0-9):
@Ingolf This is also a feature found in your beloved Illustrator
Not really? In the default config no response from any of my numeric keys?
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@Ingolf hmmm I was remembering using that, but maybe I was thinking of Affinity?
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@Boldline Yes, I know that feature from Affinity.
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@Ingolf What if someone assigns a shortcut to a numeric key?
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@vectoradmin said in Quick transparency (keys 0-9):
@Ingolf What if someone assigns a shortcut to a numeric key?
Numeric keys really should be reserved for this - when you get used to using numeric keys for this you get addicted.
Otherwise it will then depend on general UX design principles used as a whole in a software product. Is the program generally proactive or not. Will you make it possible for users to assign shortcuts to keys in use without the interface warning them or block them from doing it in the assignment process or warn them.
I don't think it is a big issue here and now - users that configure custom shortcuts are rarely beginners and they will probably understand what they ruined.
Maybe they are fine with that, maybe they will re-assign the shortcut or maybe they will come here for support or ask for a fix.Personally I am UX hardliner though. I would reserve the keys for the program and avoid too much UX related code and need for dialogs and messages in the program. If met with streams of customer tears that decision could be changed later.
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@vectoradmin said in Quick transparency (keys 0-9):
@Ingolf What if someone assigns a shortcut to a numeric key?
@Ingolf Sounds like this is getting close to being implemented.
…@vectoradmin What if you are on a laptop with no Numeric Pad?
Can we have a Preferences option to 'Emulate NumPad' with the number keys?
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@b77 said in Quick transparency (keys 0-9):
@vectoradmin What if you are on a laptop with no Numeric Pad?
@b77 It will be with any of the number keys. I think it is the same in AD.
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@Ingolf said in Quick transparency (keys 0-9):
Numeric keys really should be reserved for this - when you get used to using numeric keys for this you get addicted.
No need for this. Simply add assignable shortcut commands for "Set transparency to 0%", "Set transparency to 10%", etc., and make the number keys the defaults.
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No thanks.
The idea is that any number appropriate for the object can be entered fast and simple as in AD. 0, 12, 25, 45. No restrictions. It is very easy and fast to use that way.
Affinity did this perfectly right.
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@Ingolf This should be available in build 1.1.024
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@Ingolf Thanks for suggesting this and thanks to @vectoradmin for implementing it so quickly.
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@b77 There is an option in Preferences -> Document Editor to disable this if needed: Opacity Editing Keys
