In my mind a paint tool is a 2 dimensional function. I can see using the paint tool in a window displaying a single object that was not a group, kind of like Microsoft Word does it. I cannot imagine trying to paint an object inside a group as though an artist could reach his paintbrush 3 dimensionally into his painting and touch up a bush that was behind a tree!
Now if someone wanted to see the effect his pain modification has on the whole, then switching between an edit mode and a preview mode would be the way to do that, kind of like Adobe Illustrator used to do. You could even have a modifier key toggle it. But I am reinventing the wheel here. Bob S > On Aug 22, 2017, at 07:43 , Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We had an issue come into support about using the paint tools on a grouped > image - this has come up before (years ago, at least). > > Basically, only the browser, pointer and help tools will recurse into groups > - the paint tools will not. This means that if you use the paint tools over > an image in a group, the grouped image will not get edited. Instead, if there > is not a top-level image one will be created and that will be edited. > > The question is - is this behavior something which should: > > 1) Be considered a bug > > 2) Be considered correct behavior > > 3) Be considered an anomaly - i.e. something which is probably a bug, but > too many people rely on to change without some sort of compatibility mechanism > <snip> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
