Shift-click for constraining eraser etc causes odd behavior

[orangefizz]

When I shift click to constrain the eraser (for example) to 0-45-90 degrees etc, it first erases a line from the last point where I clicked with that tool (or possibly others) before correctly erasing where I'm dragging. The image below shows what happened when I shift-dragged right from the teal spot. The line erased from the blue dot should not have happened.

[Hangman]

15 hours ago, orangefizz said:

When I shift click to constrain the eraser (for example) to 0-45-90 degrees etc, it first erases a line from the last point where I clicked with that tool (or possibly others) before correctly erasing where I'm dragging. The image below shows what happened when I shift-dragged right from the teal spot. The line erased from the blue dot should not have happened.

This is also true of the Paint Brush tool when holding the Shift Key... One thing I'm unable to do however is constrain either the Paint Brush or the Erase Brush in 45° increments, Shift (for me) will only constrain the brushes either vertically or horizontally. I'm unsure if that is by design?

[EmT]

Hi @orangefizz

This sounds like expected behaviour as described in this help guide: 

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  • To draw a straight brush stroke, lay down your initial stroke, then Shift-click at the position where your stroke is to end; keep the key pressed to continue the straight line stroke.
  • To constrain a stroke to the X-axis or Y-axis, press the Shift key immediately after your initial stroke is laid down, then drag along the X or Y axis to the position where your stroke is to end; keep the key pressed to continue the stroke.

   

If you are seeing behaviour different to the above then let me know.

[Hangman]

@EmT, there is still an issue here...

2 hours ago, EmT said:

To draw a straight brush stroke, lay down your initial stroke, then Shift-click at the position where your stroke is to end; keep the key pressed to continue the straight line stroke.

This works correctly and as expected...

2 hours ago, EmT said:

To constrain a stroke to the X-axis or Y-axis, press the Shift key immediately after your initial stroke is laid down, then drag along the X or Y axis to the position where your stroke is to end; keep the key pressed to continue the stroke.

If you press the Shift key immediately after your intital stroke is laid down, then the stroke isn't contrained to the X-axis or Y-axis...

If you press the Shift key immediately before your intital stroke is laid down, then the stroke is contrained to the X-axis or Y-axis but you can't draw a series of constrained lines without the start of one stroke being joined to the end of the previous stroke...

If you consider how the Pen tool works, you are able to press the escape key between successive strokes to start a new new stroke without the two being joined but that doesn't work for the Brush or Erase tools...

Not sure if this is expected behaviour as it is the same in V1...

[orangefizz]

3 hours ago, Hangman said:

This is also true of the Paint Brush tool when holding the Shift Key... One thing I'm unable to do however is constrain either the Paint Brush or the Erase Brush in 45° increments, Shift (for me) will only constrain the brushes either vertically or horizontally. I'm unsure if that is by design?

I get 45 degree increments fine, it's just a problem of either erasing or painting from other points in the document previously clicked before doing this operation. Most definitely a bug.

[orangefizz]

2 hours ago, EmT said:

Hi @orangefizz

This sounds like expected behaviour as described in this help guide: 

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If you are seeing behaviour different to the above then let me know.

It's difficult to demonstrate this in one static image. I guess I'll need to make a screen recording. As the other commenter said I can get a new paintbrush and as soon as I click anywhere in the document, if I hadn't previously clicked anywhere else, it would draw a line from the top most left corner. Clearly a bug, no question.

[orangefizz]

46 minutes ago, Hangman said:

@EmT

Not sure if this is expected behaviour as it is the same in V1...

Again, if you choose a paintbrush, hit shift and then draw a straight line horizontally the first thing it will do is draw a line from the top left corner of the document to where you first clicked with the paintbrush (or, in my case the eraser tool).

[orangefizz]

 

 

[orangefizz]

3 hours ago, Hangman said:

This is also true of the Paint Brush tool when holding the Shift Key... One thing I'm unable to do however is constrain either the Paint Brush or the Erase Brush in 45° increments, Shift (for me) will only constrain the brushes either vertically or horizontally. I'm unsure if that is by design?

Correction: I can also only get 0 or 90 degrees. There's probably a setting somewhere but 45 degrees should be the default.

[Hangman]

9 minutes ago, orangefizz said:

There's probably a setting somewhere but 45 degrees should be the default.

As far as I can tell there is no 45° constraint option for either the Brush or Erase tools only 0° and 90°...

[orangefizz]

Not good.

[EmT]

21 minutes ago, orangefizz said:

if I hadn't previously clicked anywhere else, it would draw a line from the top most left corner. Clearly a bug, no question.

We are already aware of this issue and I've given the ticket a bump. 

 

In your first comments example, did you do the following:

1. Click once on the canvas

2. Undo

3. Shift + click in a 2nd place

4. Observe the stroke starts from the 1st point clicked

If so, this is again an issue that we are already aware of. 

 

7 minutes ago, orangefizz said:

Correction: I can also only get 0 or 90 degrees. There's probably a setting somewhere but 45 degrees should be the default.

The Vector Brush tool can be constrained to 45 degree angles using shift and drag. However for the Paint Brush tool, this is the correct behaviour, Shift + Drag is to constrain a stroke to the X-axis or Y-axis. 

[orangefizz]

4 minutes ago, EmT said:

In your first comments example, did you do the following:

1. Click once on the canvas

2. Undo

3. Shift + click in a 2nd place

4. Observe the stroke starts from the 1st point clicked

 

I didn't need to; simply opening a new document, choosing a brush, then shift-clicking to paint causes the app to first draw a diagonal line from 0:0 (presumably the default value for a new doc). After that it just uses whatever coordinates I last clicked at. Glad it's on your radar because this is obviously useless as a feature atm (eraser too).

[EmT]

Just now, orangefizz said:

After that it just uses whatever coordinates I last clicked at.

Thanks, I've also bumped the ticket relating to this issue.