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It works if you first insert an image area

Somehow counter-intuitive.

I've fixed it. I've done this by automatically creating a suitable paint image if one doesn't exist (rather than letting it try to add one with it's flawed method). I need to test this on Windows and MacOS, but seems to be working on Linux so far...
(video here)

Incredible when you consider that 'that' was lying around unfixed from way, way back in time.

Presumably you'll roll that into 1.04?

Random word of the moment: Complacency.

Yes, this will be part of OXT lite 1.04.
So, I suppose - getting back to the original point of this post: do I go with antialiased brushes?

I even thought about going mad and making some new anti-aliased bristly brushes. Or even any other shape. Suggestions welcome now we have it working.

micmac wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:38 pm It works if you first insert an image area

Mic

Correct, and I believe this is the main thing for fixing this bug, 'before mouseDown' the pencil/brush tool needs to ensure there is an existing, non-reference image or covert it to a non-reference image, or create a non-reference image, before drawing.

------EDIT just saw where Tom said he's fixed this.-------------

I'll have to check OXT DPE RC5 because I thought I tried to fix this at one point as well.

Also correct that this has been a bug for a long time and it was reported as a bug a long time ago too.

Over the weekend I've started working on OXT Tools palette again.
I spent some time looking at Tools palette from LC 7.x (pre-widgets), the tools palette had a couple different controller pop-up menus, for example the color selector was a grid of block, and there was a rounded corner radius selector that has since disappeared when the Tools was redesigned to include Widgets.
The tools palette is a 'script only' stack in v8-9 sections, the sections content and state is maintained by Arrays, which we can retrieve/manipulate. In v6-7 Tools is a regular stack.