Zoom oddity
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 1:59 pm
Hi Eric
A couple of very minor things:
1. With 4.80b2 there is a slight zoom oddity: if you have an object selected and then do a zoom (keystroke Z) the selected object appears separately and large in a zoom marquee that jumps out of location. Once you click, zoom returns to location and everything is normal again and has zoomed OK. Zoom without an object selected works as it always did – just fine.
It doesn't matter because it all works, but it is a bit disconcerting! It only happened with 4.80b2
2. One other very minor oddity if you have a drawing with layers and layer layouts. If you select an object on the active layer (usually to copy and paste) and then switch to a layer layout where the original layer is not the active layer and not visible, the selected object is still visible, even though it is on a non-visible layer. It pastes just fine on the new active layer and it's not a problem at all - just a bit surprising at first!
If you don't have layer layouts and you select an object on the active layer, then go to the layers window and swap layers, making the first layer non-visible, this doesn't happen – as you would expect, the selected object is not visible (it pastes perfectly normally just as you would expect).
I think this may have been the case for a long time – but I only really started to use layer layouts once there was a top menu item for them in 4.70, so I don't really know.
In some ways it is quite useful because you still see the selected object.
Cheers -- George
A couple of very minor things:
1. With 4.80b2 there is a slight zoom oddity: if you have an object selected and then do a zoom (keystroke Z) the selected object appears separately and large in a zoom marquee that jumps out of location. Once you click, zoom returns to location and everything is normal again and has zoomed OK. Zoom without an object selected works as it always did – just fine.
It doesn't matter because it all works, but it is a bit disconcerting! It only happened with 4.80b2
2. One other very minor oddity if you have a drawing with layers and layer layouts. If you select an object on the active layer (usually to copy and paste) and then switch to a layer layout where the original layer is not the active layer and not visible, the selected object is still visible, even though it is on a non-visible layer. It pastes just fine on the new active layer and it's not a problem at all - just a bit surprising at first!
If you don't have layer layouts and you select an object on the active layer, then go to the layers window and swap layers, making the first layer non-visible, this doesn't happen – as you would expect, the selected object is not visible (it pastes perfectly normally just as you would expect).
I think this may have been the case for a long time – but I only really started to use layer layouts once there was a top menu item for them in 4.70, so I don't really know.
In some ways it is quite useful because you still see the selected object.
Cheers -- George