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  • Published 19 Apr 2021

Shape drawing tools: allow click-and-release in place to add first vertex

Problem

You have a fill material selected and you want to create a filled shape with the polyline tool (because the fill tool is failing to fill your art properly :)).

Attempting to click-and-release to create the first vertex does nothing.

So you click and drag, but have no indication that anything is happening; the start point isn't indicated, and because a filled polygon with only two vertices has no width, no shape preview shows up. To create the shape you have to stop dragging, then click-and-release again at the location of each corner you want to add.

So you must first click-drag-release to place the first corner, and after that click-and-release for subsequent corners. This is an incoherent user experience.

Proposal

All of the green shape drawing tools, including the polyline tool, allow an initial click-and-release in place to place the first vertex/control point. Subsequent clicking adds points and control handles can be dragged where appropriate. Pressing return completes and renders the shape.

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Development Status: Open

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tomasz.brain
19 Apr 2021

7 Comments

zeauron

Yes. Currently, user have to enable Stroke component of material used to see edit lines. When material used has this component disable, ; at least, same edit lines as in Edit mode should be visible.

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tomasz.brain Author

* @Ronan Ducluzeau * even with visible edit lines the experience with the polyline tool, for instance, would be incoherent. allowing a single click in place to begin the shape would unify it.

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zeauron

* @tomasz.brain * Yes. Things are as is, probably, because of similarities of code with add box, add circle tools. That remark would probably be legitimate for all line tools (Line, Arc, Curve).

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