minor UI bug

Nick

I found that when added a new Point under a slot, the Point is automatically selected but dragging on the canvas do not move the Point. It moves the bone containing that Point but the bone is not selected.

Erika

Hello Nick! When I create a new Point attachment in an already present slot, everything is deselected, can you describe more precisely what steps you do to get in that state please?

Nick

You can see that when inserted a Point, dragging on the canvas will drag the root bone instead of just the point.
I need to re-select the Point in order to only drag the point.

Erika

Hello Nick, it looks like you have some filters active in the tree which may be preventing you from selecting immediately the point attachment, causing the bone to be selected instead.

Nick

From the video, you can see that once the point attachment is created, it is automatically selected in the hierarchy and the root bone is not selected all the time (visually). All filter is on. Nothing is preventing the point attachment from being selected and it is also visually selected. The inconsistency is very obvious about what is selected visually and what is selected internally. Thus, this is a UI bug.

Erika

Hello Nick,
Your tree filter icon in the video is red which means one or more filters are active. A deactivated filter icon is yellow. Please try to deactivate your filters first.

Nick

Hi Erika,

Thank you for the quick response. However, the result is the same even after the filter is off.

I guess we can just skip guessing whats causing it. As long as the visual is showing user the Point attachment is selected but the one being dragged is actually the root bone, that is enough to be considered a bug. It doesn't matter if it is the filter causing or something else causing it. The visual and behavior inconsistency need to be fixed anyway.

Erika

I've created an issue for this for now. I could not reproduce your behavior, please post a screenshot of your active filters for reproduction purposes.
Active filter inconsistency on point attachment creation · #543 · EsotericSoftware/spine-editor

Nick

Here is the one with no filter on.

booboogaga

Erika, I just went into spine, fresh project, and reproduced this just for fun. Can confirm it's there.

create new project
create new slot under root
create point bone under new slot
the new point bone ends up selected, and moving it will move root. Just once. After deselecting it and selecting again it doesn't happen

I'm on 3.8.86 if that's relevant