Support for Studio Link for <= Affinity 2.x

[mayordea]

hello, i've been smoothly using the affinity programs thanks to the patcher, but there was one thing i wanted to clarify:

does the nature of the patcher prevent publisher's studiolink (where photo and designer can be accessed as "personas" in-app) from working? i'm still getting used to the ui and systems so i could be missing something, but from what i've read online, studiolink seems to be an automatic unlock based on what licenses the account has redeemed. i installed and patched all three affinity programs but am unable to access the photo and designer personas in publisher (both apps are grayed out and say "app launch required" on opening studiolink).

this is pretty understandable and an acceptable drawback for an otherwise great tool, but i would still like confirmation if studiolink is not usable with this patcher. thank you.

(also, i've never submitted an issue on github before, so apologies if submission etiquette is not up to snuff, i just have no idea where else to go for this question!)

[Still34]

I've never used the feature before but if it's not something that requires additional services on the server's side it should work. I'll have to look into that later.

[fahadali44]

Please make patch for studio link to work as it is very important feature. In the current version, Studio Link is not working as described above.

[happymimimix]

I found a tool that can unlock studio link for 2.5.x! @Still34 You might wanna check this out.

affinity2.5.5patch.zip

This tool was made with diablo2oo2's Universal Patcher: https://dup-patcher.blogspot.com/
The .dup2 file in the archive is the patcher's source code.

[Still34]

If it involves patching the native unmanaged library, then it may be outside of the scope of the current project, as the current project only patches the managed assembly. This may be better suited with namazso's universal DLL patcher, which I'm fine with integrating, but I'll only take a look when I'm free.