Invert Selection: no "marching ants" around the canvas borders?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 29 October 2011 Oct, silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just out of curiosity :-)
> I don't know whether this is a feature or a "bug" with Krita 2.4.
> Probably I am far too used with the Gimp features :-)
> 
> In short, I would like to know why there are NO visible "marching ants" when you invert a selection with Krita 2.4 (b3).
> 
> In short:
> 1. Open a new image
> 2. Select a rectangular area (around the center of this image). 
> The "marching ants" appears around this rectangular area.
> 3. Invert the selection (ctr+shitf+I): NO marching ants are showed at the borders of the canvas
> 4. When, for instance, I fill with a colour this area the inverted selection is coloured.
> This means everything works as expected.
> 
> To recap, Is it "normal" not having the "marching ants" around the borders when you invert a selection (as in the "Gimp way")?

No... Since we do show the ants around the image if we do select-all, then we also should show them in this case. This is definitely a bug.


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Boudewijn Rempt
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