Editing a brushes' Wet Edges setting from "More" button in context menu does not work

[DanH]

In Designer 2 for iPad, when accessing the brush characteristics from the More button in the brush context menu, and changing Wet Edges to Set Off, it doesn't "stick." Meaning, after I make the edit, if I select a different brush, and then return to the one I had edited to Set Off I find it has reverted once again to Don't Set.

However, if I make the edit after left swiping on the brush in the brush panel, choose Edit, and make the edit, then the edit holds and does not revert to the original setting.

This bug does not exist in v1 of Designer for iPad. In v1, access the brush editor via More, or via the Edit option described above, and both ways work and remain edited. (Note: in v1 on the iPad, you long press the brush in the brush panel to access the Edit option, whereas v2 requires swiping left instead of long pressing.)

 

[walt.farrell]

I think you probably did not click Save after making the change. If you click OK the change now appears to be temporary, and reverts to the original brush settings if you switch to a different brush.

Yes, this is different from how V1 worked, which also offered Save, Cancel, and OK from the More dialog. I suspect it may be intentional, but you may be right that it's a bug. Or maybe it was a bug in V1  

We may have to wait for one of the Serif staff to say for sure.

[DanH]

Choosing Save creates a copy of the brush. Works the same in iPad v1 and v2.

This brush editing window is identical whether accessing via More or Edit—with one exception—and so any changes made when accessing it through either More or Edit should yield the same result. The one difference is that accessing the brush editor through More has the confusingly named Save option in the bottom left corner. All of computing uses “Save” to mean keeping the existing file with any changes made to it, yet in this instance it means “Save a copy”. In v1, OK acts like I expect Save should act. In v2, OK acts differently depending on if the brush editor is accessed via More or Edit: OK in More is temprary, but OK in Edit is permanent.

Confused you yet? Describing it feels all tangled up and don’t know if it is easy to follow.

If someone wants to temporarily override the wet edges setting, the brush context menu has a button to turn wet edges on or off temprarily. Which suggests an additional reason why the behavior in v2 seems like a bug and not (confusing) design.

[stokerg]

Hi @DanH,

20 hours ago, DanH said:

This brush editing window is identical whether accessing via More or Edit—with one exception—and so any changes made when accessing it through either More or Edit should yield the same result. The one difference is that accessing the brush editor through More has the confusingly named Save option in the bottom left corner. All of computing uses “Save” to mean keeping the existing file with any changes made to it, yet in this instance it means “Save a copy”. In v1, OK acts like I expect Save should act. In v2, OK acts differently depending on if the brush editor is accessed via More or Edit: OK in More is temprary, but OK in Edit is permanent.

 

We do already have this logged with the Dev team to resolve  

[DanH]

Great! While they’re at it, ask them to take 3 extra seconds to change the name of the “Save” button in the brush editor window to be named “Save a copy”, since that is what it does 🙂