Issues with floating Layer Tool
I've encountered several issues when floating the Layer Tool to make better use of my widescreen monitor, and I'm curious if anyone else has experienced these:
1. Occasionally renaming a layer becomes incredibly slow. Literally a second for each character typed. Restarting Capture One seems to remedy it. Docking the Layer Tool also fixes it.
2. After clicking on the float Layer Tool window, say to perform a masking function like fill or luma range, the shortcut keys on the image stop working. So functions like M, B, E, ... which I use all the time cease to respond. To fix it, I'm force to select the title bar of the main Capture One screen to regain the input focus. Imagine performing lots of switching between the main window and the Layer Tool window - or other floating Tool windows.
Both of these issues are incredibly annoying, and really impact my workflow. I float the Layer Tool because it saves lots of scrolling in the main tool panel. I'm wondering if other floated tool windows would have the similar problems now.
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The keyboard shortcuts with the floating layer tool has been a problem since version 15 was introduced. I hope you will submit a trouble ticket because C1 knows about it but hasn't fixed it because (I think) not enough people have complained. I work on 2 screens and it is incredible annoying! I've tried numerous workarounds both haven't found a solution. I even tried going back to v14, but my catalogs are no longer compatible :(
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That's sad then. I'll open a ticket for sure.
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Hopefully they'll fix this before the new release.
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That would be good. It's really annoying to edit with a floating Tool window, and it's equally frustrating scrolling through all the docked tools.
I created the ticket anyway, so now just wait to see if anything happens.
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Totally agree!
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I haven't had problems renaming layers, but I have encountered your second issue. I created a new post yesterday describing it before discovering this post.
I'll also post a trouble ticket.
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Hi Robert,
Can you try this to see if it reproduces the issue: docking and then undocking Layers multiple times.
I find that at first it seems fine, but every time you repeat docking/floating it gets significantly worse.
I believe other actions may also cause the lag to slowly increase.
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It happens first time and every susequent time I undock the layers panel. Docked- no problem. Undocked - shortcut keys don't work.
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I received a response from support saying that this is a known issue and they are working to fix it.
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Thanks Robert. Hopefully they fix it quickly since it's an annoying issue.
Regarding the dock-undock sequence, I was talking about renaming the layer. I find it slows down each time I dock and undock the Layers tool. First time I undock, it's slow but not that bad. If I dock and undock it a few more times, then it becomes annoying. A few more times and it becomes almost unusable. Restarting and it's back to being fast again.
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I tried docking-undocking 7-8 times and renaming layers each time and I see no slowing on my computer. I only have the disabled shortcuts problem.
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Thanks Robert. Interesting results.
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