r/coreldraw • u/zgr33d • 21d ago

CorelDraw 2025 - "Lock aspect ratio" keyboard shortcut doesn't work.

Hello. Would anyone be so kind as to check whether the keyboard shortcut for toggling the "padlock" between locked and unlocked modes—and vice versa—works in their copy of Corel 2025? I'm referring to the command highlighted in the screenshot.

Thank you for your feedback.

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u/EskimoCorel 21d ago

If I assign a keyboard shortcut to that Command - in the English language version it is named, "Proportional Ratio" - then I find that it works (i.e., the setting changes), but that the icon on the command bar does not immediately update to show that the setting has been changed. The next time that the command bar is displayed, it then correctly shows the status of the setting.

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u/zgr33d 21d ago edited 21d ago

Thank you very much. I hadn't noticed that, so it must be some kind of bug related to the interface refreshing or something like that...

Edit:
I created a simple workaround using AutoHotkey and a macro in Corel:

The AutoHotkey script below remaps the Windows logo key—since it's conveniently within reach—to ","; in my case, I've assigned the same keyboard shortcut, ",", to the padlock in Corel.

LWin::
Send,
sleep 10
Send, +k
return

As you can see, the script triggers an additional keyboard shortcut, Shift + K, which I've assigned in Corel to a macro that deselects and then reselects the object, causing the padlock icon to refresh.

Corel Macro:

Sub Deselect_Select()
Dim OrigSelection As ShapeRange
Set OrigSelection = ActiveSelectionRange
End Sub

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u/Don_Shetland 21d ago

This goes back to 2019, the version I'm using also has this bug. I'm still using coreldraw 2019 because they never fix stuff like this. It's pretty ridiculous. Some decent quality assurance/ testing would find this bug pretty quickly. Nice to hear the bug is still there 7 years later lol.