Selecting Strokes Re-Aligns them

[carter2422]

If you select a stroke that has been shifted or otherwise manually aligned is selected then it auto-aligns its self. No alignment should take place upon selection.

[patmo141]

Are you ctrl + clicking to select?

[carter2422]

Nope, just LMB.

[patmo141]

You are technically widgeting them wgen clicking. Ctrl click to just select.

[carter2422]

That doesn't make sense to me. Why does the widget cause realignment?

[patmo141]

This is a hard concept to explain. I'm going to make a video.

[carter2422]

Okay cool, thanks.

[patmo141]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Zvv907LJw&feature=youtu.be

[patmo141]

the underylying reason is the way contours works. The "in this situation" reason is becuase its hard to distinguish a click from someone clicking to intitiate a transform.

Basically, it always assumes you have clicked to transform unless you hold ctrl....so when you release it re-cuts the object. Video explains why this ruins your alignment sometimes.

I'm pretty sure I can improve this on both levels though

[patmo141]

So...two problems here which we can leave as one bug.

a. simple clicks cause behind the scenes transform, causing a re-cut and re alignment. Losing established shift
b. shift is not well preserved through transformations

[carter2422]

Ah that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the video.

In response to a. above, could we mitigate this by implementing a threshold detection for what is considered a transform? Such that if a user simply selects the stroke, or moves it a minuscule amount, then Contours doesn't consider it a new cut?