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Paint fill broken wtf?

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2023-10-26 05:29:18

Okay, I don't understand this at all. Click on the layer I want to paint into. Press m for the selection tool. Select the area I want to color fill. Press b for the paint tool. Click the color I want in the color palette. Option-delete to fill the selected area. Worked fine for the first couple of weeks that I've used Pixelmator Pro.

Except now, starting a few days ago, it doesn't "hear" my color selection. I've had to go through increasingly bizarre contortions to "hear" my selection of the color I want out of the color swatches window. Now, the last couple of days, not only does it not change the selected color, but it doesn't fill at all. WTF? I don't understand how this is supposed to work at all?
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2023-10-26 20:09:27

I have discovered that the paint tool initially sets opacity to 0% when first called.
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2023-10-26 21:32:26

Hm. Yes, now that you mention it, I've seen that, too. I'll have to keep an eye out for that. The defaults on whole thing seems to behave in a completely nonsensical fashion.