Cool bug or feature! / stencil visibility

[tuszek]

Sometimes i think stencils get in the way of seeing how am i doing, especially when i only apply some fine layers of airbrush paint. So i been waiting for a way to hide the stencil, but not lose its effect.

I found one!

If you hold H or V you can work without the stencil getting in the way, but that can lead to trouble navigating and makes the use of other keys awkward. But if you hold H or V and drag the canvas with left click, the stencils remain hidden as long as you hide, then unhide them.

I think it is technically a bug, but in practice it is a feature. Yay for happy accidents!

[MSIE]

WOHOOOO!!!

this really works!!!! thanks for letting us know about your happy accident!

[Null]

Hey, that's useful. Thanks for that)

Yet that reminds me about Russian joke on programming. It's a kidding text-instructions on exercises for programmers. Here's a piece of it you reminded me about:

Found a bug!
Fixing, fixing, fixing... Fixed!
Found a bug!
Fixing, fixing, fixing... Can't fix. It's a feature!
Continue the exercises...

[Charlie]

Nice tip, definitely a bug that needs to stay as a feature.

[tuszek]

Thanks for the replies! And you are very welcome.