Selection tools : quickly switching between add/subtract

[Sven Langkamp]

On 9/15/07, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 September 2007 02:06, Warren Baird wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Probably another noob question:   I'm in the process now of trying to
> > use krita to extract objects like a flower from their background.   In
> > Gimp I go to a 'lasso' tool, and then can easily switch between add and
> > subtract by pressing a modifier like 'shift'.
> >
> > I haven't been able to find any way to do the same thing in Krita
> > without going and clicking somewhere, which is way too slow...
> >
> > Am I just missing something?
>
> I think we never realized we could implement that. Or maybe it's on one of
> the
> todo's now, but a quick look through the code in
> krita/plugins/tools/selection_tools shows we don't react to key modifiers.

Actually it was implemented for select similar in 1.6, but that
doesn't work anymore. In 2.0 there is also replace and intersect which
should have a shortcut too. Maybe it would be useful to create some
abstract class for the selection tool functionality.