Selections and enormous caterpillars

[derekfountain]

I made a selection and ran CM3. Screenshot attached. The selection was a rectangle around the animal's face. First thing to note is that there is no indication that it's working on a selection. Tricky one that; I'm not sure whether the selection should be shown or not. Can you do optional marching ants?

More importantly, look at the curve caterpillars! I'm still not sure what the caterpillars are telling me (I haven't looked too hard at the new features as yet), but they probably shouldn't be that big, should they?

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The caterpillars are too big.  This looks like a bug in selection processing. 

The question of how to highlight the selection is an interesting one because I also use the marching ants to indicate the outline of any selected samples.  I suppose the ants could do double duty, marching around the selection, with hide/unhide option, plus selection outlines around any currently selected points.

Selection, transparency, and layer masks all interract with the curvemeister mask for both display and preview, so I'm interested in any bugs in this area.  This is apparently the first one.

[derekfountain]

If I move my mouse pointer around the outside of my image (that is, in the grey area between the edge of the image and edge of the actual GUI pane the image is displayed on) the caterpillars, the hue clock and the bouncing balls continue to be updated. It seems the value of the pixel at the image edge is used.

Not an enormous problem, but it clearly isn't right.

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Yes, you are correctly describing the behavior.  You can see this visually by creating a sample and dragging it.  Sampling from the edge when the cursor is outside the image has it's own logic, internally speaking.  Now that you mention it, it is a bit weird.  I'll think about a way to deal with it, possibly keeping the last sample value in place until you drag inside the image.