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NPriore

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  1. For the sake of brevity, no to every assumption you're making. And, I just hope that one day soon, Affinity will at least allow us to see the name of the last used brush on the status bar.
  2. I am sure. Unless, of course, application programming and software development has changed so much since I left the field and computers have regressed, which I doubt. The only changes that would need to be stored are those made to the already existing parameters that are found in the brush editor. A 32 bit register can hold any one of more than 4 billion unique configurations. I doubt that however many parameters there are in the brush editor that they would total more than that. And yes, some of the parameters are not on off switches and can hold any one of a variable set of values but even then I doubt all possible configurations would reach 4 billion, and what if they did? Then use two registers instead of one and more than 18 quintillion unique configurations can be stored. 32 bits is .0004% of one megabyte. Saving the name and current state of the last selected brush is a no-brainer. Saving the current state of all changed brushes for the duration of the current session is a no-brainer. The hurdle here is not one of processing or storage overhead. Anything that is done would be an improvement over the current broken implementation. If all I could see was the name of the last brush I selected whenever I choose the brush tool, then that is an improvement over just looking at the brush panel and trying to remember what brush I was using last.
  3. Yes, I understand, but what I'm describing should be very easy to implement and so much better than the current behavior that it can serve as a stop-gap while we all wait for the perfect implementation sometime in the future. What I described can be expanded to account for changes in presets and other issues. One small data structure can hold all of the necessary information with very little overhead. But leaving it as it is now boggles the mind. This thread was started 4+ years ago, this bug is so old it might as well be called a feature.
  4. I used to make a living as a programmer analyst and it's mind boggling that this is a problem that continues for years. Every time I find myself looking at the brushes panel trying to figure out which brush I was using because it is no longer highlighted, I feel like I'm getting punked. I mean, why not just assign the name of the last brush selected to a variable and display that name on the status bar each time the brush tool is active? Every other art application I have ever used, and I've used a bunch, always has some functionality that allows the user to see what brush was last selected. How can Affinity be so good at so much, and yet so bad at something this miniscule?
  5. I see that now, Thank you. AD is very impressive and easy to learn. I'm enjoying working with it. New features are great. 👍
  6. I think I found what was causing the problem. In the "snapping" options I unchecked "show snapping candidates" and that appears to resolve the problem. I don't know how or why that option was turned on but it looks like that was the problem.
  7. I've only been using AD for a couple of weeks and I find it easy to use, but after I updated to the latest version yesterday I notice this issue with these purple outlines on objects. Whenever I hover my mouse over an object, a purple outline appears on that object. As I hover my mouse over other objects the same thing happens to those objects. That outline does not go away when I move the mouse cursor away from the objects. It does go away eventually but I don't know why it takes so long to disappear. AD was not behaving this way before the update. Is this a bug or a setting that I now need to adjust? I searched the forums and the help file but could not find anything related to this issue. Please help! Thanks. See the video I've attached. _selection_problem.mp4
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