Using the brush tool

[Richard Gaskin]

Mike Brown wrote:
> Do you know what commands sets the cursor from the brush tool back to
> the normal behavior?

The same one you use to change the tool to the brush tool, only 
specifying the browse tool instead:

  choose browse tool

As for keeping some buttons in browse mode while having paint tools in 
use, you can try two options:

- Try setting the cantSelect of the buttons you want to maintain 
browse-mode behavior.  When that property is set they respond as though 
they're in browse mode even when the tool is the pointer tool - may work 
for the brush tool as well.

- Have those buttons in a palette stack, limiting your toplevel stack to 
the painting canvas.

For the long term, it would be really great if we could have tool modes 
for group controls, so you could have a tool pane running in browse mode 
and a group as your paint canvas, all in one window.

There's a request for this, if you feel like it's something worth voting 
for:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=623>

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