unclickable area on path

[Formerly Kevin Yin, now disabled]

Open the attached testcase. There's a small red circle and a green path. Using the node tool, try clicking on the segment inside the circle and dragging it around: nothing will happen. Also, try using the node tool and double clicking on the segment inside the circle to create a node: nothing will happen. The segment seems to avoid being edited.

Some additional odd behavior:
1. Select the green path.
2. Verify that the segment in the circle is bugged.
3. Move some of the nodes that are unrelated to the bugged segment, keeping the overall path selected.
4. Verify that the segment in the circle is still bugged.
5. Deselect the path and reselect it.
6. Verify that the segment in the circle is no longer bugged after reselection.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.2, 0.48.3.1 and 0.48+devel r11823 (default new preferences) with the attached test case.

Based on the description, this is the same issue as already tracked in
Bug #290870 “ Regression: Curve dragging via Node Tool sometimes won't work .”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/290870>

It's unclear to me though, why I can't reproduce it with the test case from this report (bug #1070674). Could you provide more details about your system (do you work with mouse or use a pen/tablet?), and possibly attach your current preferences file?

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.2, 0.48.3.1 and 0.48+devel r11823
> (default new preferences) with the attached test case.

Oops - tests done on OS X 10.7.4 (32bit official package, and local 64bit builds, all X11-based), no tablet.

[Formerly Kevin Yin, now disabled (kyin)]

Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 on Windows 7 x64

I use a mouse.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.3.1 and 0.48+devel r11821 on Ubuntu 12.10 (in VM) either, using default, custom or the provided preferences file.

[Formerly Kevin Yin, now disabled (kyin)]

Reproduced on Windows 7, 0.48.4, on VMware, but I'm the original reporter.

[Formerly Kevin Yin, now disabled (kyin)]

Not reproduced on Inkscape 0.48.4 on Xubuntu 13.04 on VMware, and I'm the original reporter.

[Formerly Kevin Yin, now disabled (kyin)]

In the gif, all of those momentary circles around the mouse are left clicks.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk revision 12832 (devlibs and devlibs-gtk3).

[Cojnel (cojnel)]

Reproduced with v0.48.4 r9939 and r12976 on linux mint 15 32bit.

Attatched is a file where only a small part of a path segment is clickable.

[Formerly Kevin Yin, now disabled (kyin)]

I can reproduce it with Cojnel's testcase, on Windows 7, 0.48.4; behavior is as described in the svg. Red clicks don't select; green clicks do.

Additional behavior: after selection by clicking on the green, clicking on the red doesn't unselect, but clicking off the path unselects.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> "only part of a path segment is clickable.svg" (5.1 KiB, image/svg+xml)
>
> Reproduced with v0.48.4 r9939 and r12976 on linux mint 15 32bit.

Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939, r10009 and with trunk r12975, r12980 on OS X 10.7.5 (64bit).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced with the file from comment #10 on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk revision 12980.

[Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger)]

I'm unable to replicate this issue in Inkscape 1.1-dev (c990a67, 2020-04-09), Windows 10. None of the attached files have unselectable segments. The fact that there are a lot of replications here (including in the duplicate issue), but this issue hasn't been opened at Gitlab yet, also indicates that it's probably fixed. Please reopen on http://inkscape.org/report if the problem occurs again.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger