Could Magic Wand work while any other tool is selected?
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I was noticing with the magic wand, that if I have any other tool selected aside from the shape editor arrow or the transform tool, it wants to use that tool instead of the magic wand. I tried this with the shape tool selected and each time I went to select a fill shape to select all with, it wanted to make a circle shape.
Could the magic wand overrule whatever other tool is being used? Is there a reason other tools can be "semi-selected" while the magic wand is in use?🍎 macOS Tahoe 26.2, Mac mini (M1, 2020), Chip Apple M1, Memory 16 GB
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@Boldline This could be a bug in the magic wand tool. I will have to look into this more.
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@Boldline Finally, got to this issue. It seems that this works as expected.
When a drawing tool is active, none of the selection modes (box, lasso, magic wand) are actually used.EDIT: also, the style (color) picker tool always uses single click selection regardless of the selection mode.
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@vectoradmin I think I understand this better, but it's still a confusing thing to me. I understand where my thinking was wrong in the initial post - I assumed the magic wand would be a tool you can switch to fully, away from any previous tool used prior. So in my video example in the original post, I had first selected the shape tool (just so I had a prior tool selected), and then clicked on the magic wand - thinking it would make a total switch to the magic wand and away from the shape tool.
Part of the confusion for me is that the magic wand/polygon lasso/box icon does not turn blue when selected like the other tools in the toolbar do.
You probably have a good reason for this being set up the way it is, and I'm open changing the way I think on it. To give you reference on my thinking, in illustrator, the magic wand is a tool that is not limited based on the prior tool - if I was drawing with shapes for example, I could switch over to the magic wand and it would highlight in the toolbar and be used independent of what tool was used prior. -
@Boldline said in Could Magic Wand work while any other tool is selected?:
Part of the confusion for me is that the magic wand/polygon lasso/box icon does not turn blue when selected like the other tools in the toolbar do.
Each of them, I think, is just a selection mode. Therefore, it does not highlight blue. It is not a tool in itself. At least I haven't figured it out yet. It might as well land on the contextual bar.
