Eraser tool

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> Has anyone noticed that for the last several releases (at least back 
>>> to 2.6,) the eraser tool can't be chosen? It works okay in Rev so it 
>>> must be an IDE thing, but I can't for the life of me figure out why 
>>> it doesn't work. It doesn't work when chosen from the paint tools 
>>> palette, and it doesn't even work when specified from a script or the 
>>> message box.
>>
>> I believe this is a change in the engine, and that I'd BZ'd it (maybe, 
>> it's been a while).  Perhaps the Rev IDE accounts for this in script 
>> to work around it rather than dealing with it?
> 
> I'm not sure how that could be. Eventually the command has to boil down 
> to "choose eraser tool" by the time it gets sent to the engine.
> 
> I vaguely recall a problem in the MC paint tool palette where you 
> couldn't choose one of the other tools (pencil, was it?) That got fixed 
> and it may be when the eraser broke.
> 
>>
>> We should probably double-check this hypothesis using the Message Box....
>>
> 
> If I put "choose eraser tool" into the message box, I get the pointer 
> icon (but it isn't the pointer tool; just the cursor.) The effect of the 
> cursor is zero after that -- no selection, no eraser, no nothing.
> 
> In Rev, I can enter "choose eraser tool" into the message box and it 
> works. Since that pretty much bypasses the IDE, I'm not sure what's 
> happening.

Thanks for checking that.  Anyone recall when this stopped working?  Or 
maybe a better question would be when it was last known to have worked?

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