No de-selection of gradient Point / Appearance panel behaviour in AI23
If I edited a gradient point once, the selected point stays selected forever. I is possible for me to select another gradient point, but not de-select the point.
Why would this be necessary?
Because, when I edit some stacked layers of gradients in the appearance panel (what I do very often), the editing of the gradient hides the complete appearance, showing only the highlighted color swatch of the gradient point in the appearance panel.
The only way to get the whole appearance visible again in the panel, is to swith to another tool (i.e. selection tool). This is very time consuming and confusing.
The interesting thing about this is that, when no gradient point in the dokument was selected in the gradient tool or panel since document creation or opening, the appearance panel stays all the same, all the time. Changing angle or size with the tool makes no difference unless a gradient point ist selected!
To switch to another color swatch in the appearance panel is a nice feature, for this was sometimes a little hard to change a selected point directly to another swatch, but then it is important have the possibility to de-select it!
Marek Domke
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Hi Marek & Dllyana,
Thanks for sharing this issue,Illustrator team really appreciate this.
You can deselect the selected color stop via Escape key when you are in gradient tool. I hope this works for you as a workaround to deselect the selected color stop.
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Hi Marek & Dllyana,
Thanks for sharing this issue,Illustrator team really appreciate this.
You can deselect the selected color stop via Escape key when you are in gradient tool. I hope this works for you as a workaround to deselect the selected color stop.Regards
Ankit Goyal -
Dilyana
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I hope somebody replies, this has been killing my entire work from. I usually apply a new fill with a gradient on top of my flat base, and the first color from the gradient is ALWAYS selected, so when I try to lower the opacity it just lowers the opacity of this gradient point. As you said, I always have to deselect the entire thing and select the whole object again in order to see all fills in the appearance panel, select the gradient one manually and change opacity from there.
Plus, I've found NO way to deselect that point while still working on the gradient different from selecting a different one. If somebody has found a workaround I'll be happy to hear.
