how should selections work

[Adrian Page]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>>Maybe we can steal some more code from Digikam? The Inpainting plugin does
>>shade the region outside the selected region. The shaded region is not
>>updated in real time like in the crop image plugin in gimp, but it is quite
>>o.k.
> 
> 
> The thing is -- their selection is only rectangular, not a byte mask. That 
> makes it a lot harder.

I have some code that I wrote for kiconedit (which didn't go into cvs) 
that generates the lines along the selection boundary, working from a 
byte mask. I used that to draw marching ants. Krita's canvases tend to 
be a lot larger than icon sizes, but it might be fast enough if updated 
as part of the selection update process. I could have a play with it 
once the release is out of the way.

Adrian