when I add a top_name style secondary anchor, it wont be available to attach to via the anchor icon until I save and restart the application… has anyone else had this issue? this is in 3337. maybe I’m missing a step
Works for me. What exact setup do you use? Maybe nested components?
I have observed the same behaviour for a long time, it’s very annoying. I use Rainer’s Anchor selection palette instead, that works.
I’ll try to make a screencast of the issue (once I get my laptop back, I left it on the plane yesterday…)
I just tried it and it worked fine. So you seem to do something different that triggers the failure. A screencast would help a lot.
I will see if I can reproduce minimally in the morning… it might be because I had more than one, like top_name1 top_name2 etc
I have been playing around with this. At first I couldn’t reproduce. Now I think the problem is with the UI code itself not updating the list of anchors. So the new anchor exists it just isnt shown in the UI. The problem seems to only occur if you have looked at the list of available anchors by clicking on the anchor icon before adding the new anchor. Then if you click the anchor icon, the new one won’t be in the list. But if you never looked the first time, it will be.
What happens when you switch to another glyph and back? Does this update the anchor list?
@SCarewe If you find a spare moment, could you check if this is still an issue for you? I am unable to reproduce in the current build so I’m hoping I can close this thread 
Not sure why Georg couldn’t reproduce, maybe we had a toxic plugin or something else that since got updated? 