Painting on selections and selection masks

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 28 October 2011 Oct, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:

> 
> But it actually is an advantange of this approach -- all the dabs will have
> alpha channel, so expectations of the outline generator would be right. 

The outline generator is also used to generate the outlines for selections, not just for brushes.

> But
> the masks won't have an alpha. The latter way is how the things work
> currently. 

No, it isn't: masks have an alpha channel and nothing else.

> And the tools which know nothing about new method will work as
> they used to work: they will create dubs in the colorspace of the
> paintDevice()

And thus they fail when working on a mask.

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