Herbert123 hat geschrieben:1) create a text box, add text, and select the text. Then click in the font size field, and try to use scroll up or down on your mouse: value increases/decreases by one only.
Works here (OS X), so this might be specific to Windows.
Herbert123 hat geschrieben:2) Add a line of text, and create a new vector object. Duplicate the vector object as a virtual layer, and cut the virtual layer. Place the text cursor in the line of text, and paste the vector object in the line of text. Now switch to the original vector layer, and change it with the object settings or the vector tool. Result: the pasted virtual version disappears in the line of text.
Confirmed.
Herbert123 hat geschrieben:3) Create a group of vector objects, and use the group as a layer mask to an image. So far, so good: the smaller vector objects punch through the larger one. Now add a text layer - text is not affecting the mask.
In view of 5), I think that the text layer has an effect (but not the desired one).
However, it would be normal for the text layer not to punch a hole – the way vector layers interact when using them as layer masks depends on the chosen fill mode. If fill mode is even-odd, the vector layer toggles visibility, while if its fill mode is nonzero winding number, the contents of the vector layer will be made visible. Text layers always use nonzero winding number fill mode, so that overlapping text is treated correctly, so this would fit the picture. ((It's a bit strange that fill modes affect the interaction of layers here, while blend modes don't have any effect.)
Therefore, a simple solution in your case is to place the text layer(s) lowest in the group (or just to place the rounded rect on top in even-odd fill mode).
Herbert123 hat geschrieben:
4) Switch the vector layer group to "Draw Isolated" - now the vector group is rasterized. The text object now does punch a hole, but should the layer mask group not remain vector?
Generally, it's not possible to combine several vector layers into one (different line or fill colours, line widths, fill modes, blend modes, …) – and if it's possible, the results would be the same as without "Draw Isolated". Otoh, rendering the vector layers makes a lot of sense – because now colours (or shades of grey, rather), line widths, … are taken into account.
Herbert123 hat geschrieben:
5) turning the text layer on in the layer mask group prevents the other vector objects from having an effect - but the screen is not updated to reflect these changes. Only when I click and select one of the vector layers in the layer group does the screen update.
Confirmed.
Cheers
Burkhard.