Disabling Keep Selected option for Pencil tool should not deselect path that is edited
A detail that I'm missing from the legacy Pencil tool.
It’s a missing detail in the option keep to path selected or deselected after being drawn.
When this option is unchecked the object is deselected.
If the path is selected again to be drawn upon to adjust the shape. It deselects it again.
Now that's all logical and according to what the option says its supposed to do.
BUT
The legacy Pencil tool before its rewrite it worked almost like that but not quite the same, and it was great.
So you had the option to have the path deseletced after drawing.
BUT if you den reselected it it stayed selected for as long as you needed it to adjust the shape.
So to be clear I'm gonna try to describe the process
Draw shape.
Shape drawn, not selected.
Select the drawn shape to draw on it to adjust it, its selected, you draw on on it, it still stays selected.
This was very useful. Because usually you just want it deselected on first draw, but sometimes you need to go in and adjust a particular shape and then you're in the mode of massaging that shape and want it selected till you're done.
Please try the old pencil tool out and you will understand what i mean.
Please implement this again.
Basically that the shape only deselect upon first draw. If reselected again it stays selected till you decide when to deselect it.
It worked like this for 20 years or however long the the pencil too has been around.
Anonymous
shared this idea
-
Indeed, this is something we had working before — take a look at 2 GIFs attached to compare. The option should have been named 'Keep New Paths Selected', to avoid confusion when rewriting it...
