Object box fade?

[dave4224]

The topic title might not be the best wording... what's the purpose of the outline fade after deselecting a text or picture box?

It only seems to happen after selecting/clicking away from an item for the first time after opening a document, but not thereafter. It's a little bit distracting and makes wonder if there's some reason?

Also something that doesn't happen every time - I'm getting a sort of 'ghost' image when adjusting a text or picture box which has the unfortunate habit of snapping to guides and other items, instead of the 'actual' box snapping...

[Alfred]

 

[GarryP]

That answers the first question but not the second (effect shown in the video after 0:17), which I have also seen quite often lately.
The bounding box - as can be seen on the right of the picture frame in the video - seems to 'slip' away from where it should be. I've seen this happen on picture frames, text frames and shapes.

[dave4224]

Aha I see, thanks! I didn't think of looking at the snapping manager, I looked through the preferences. Actually I haven't looked closely at the SM for some time, looks like it's evolved a wee bit. The thing with Beta software is that the manual, if one even exists, is ever a-changing.

I'm a simple man who knew every single function of QuarkXpress 6. After 6.5 they got tricky.  Not everything is as obvious as it was in them there olden days.