Designer - Selection Stroke Outline Remains after Deselecting Shape

[Ziflin]

• Affinity Designer 2.4.0
• This happens in old and new documents 100% of the time.
• Hardware Acceleration is enabled.

To Reproduce:

1. Create a new shape with a thick-ish stroke of say 3-4 pt and set it to a visible color (say yellow).
2. Designer draws the shape along with the transform box and a purple (magenta) thin stroke to denote the shape while it is selected.
3. De-select the shape and note that the thin magenta stroke is still displayed.
4. Copy and paste the shape a few times.  Each shape will still have the thin magenta stroke.
5. Save the file. Close it. Re-open the file.  Note that none of the shapes show the thin magenta stroke after loading the file.
6. Select the shapes and note that each shape will retain the thin magenta stroke.

I assume this is a bug because it seems to serve no purpose and it makes it very hard to tell what the stroke color of a shape is when zoomed out a bit more as the magenta stroke draws over the shape's actual stroke. I definitely don't remember this happening in v1 of Designer.

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[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, Ziflin said:

2. Designer draws the shape along with the transform box and a purple (magenta) thin stroke to denote the shape while it is selected.

This sounds like you have "Show Snapping Candidates" checked in the Snapping options.

[Ziflin]

That was it! Thank you!! I must have thought that would only highlight the candidates when moving if I enabled it at some point. 

[Old Bruce]

15 minutes ago, Ziflin said:

... I must have thought that would only highlight the candidates when moving if I enabled it at some point. 

A not unreasonable assumption in my opinion.