Duplicate + Clip or Mask selection bug

[ivan louette]

1° Draw an object or import an image
2° duplicate it (Ctrl+D)
3° draw a rectangle on top of the duplicate
4° select duplicate and rectangle
5° do Object/Clip or Mask
6° select and move the result away and deselect

Now if you click inside the area corresponding to the hidden shape or image, and that even outside the clip or mask area, your clipped or masked object is selected. I must precise that only the area above, below or on the left of the clipped object does it and not the area on the right.

If you delete the first object you drew or the firstly imported image the problem subsists only inside the bounding box of the clipping object : for example if the clipping object is a rectangle with rounded angles, the noisy selection occurs in the empty area between angle and curve and if the clipping object is a star or an irregular shape it occurs in empty areas inside these shapes the bounding boxes.

Already in 0.48.01 and continue in Dev rev9936 (I am on Kubuntu 10.04)

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Ivan - if I understand your description correctly, this is the same as bug #365458 “clip object selection glitch” (see comment #10 for a detailed analysis, as well as the example attached to comment #11).

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/365458>

[ivan louette (ivan-louette)]

bug #365458 correspond only to the second § when original object was deleted. The bug I describe here only occurs when the clipped object is a duplicate.

[ivan louette (ivan-louette)]

I just reproduced it also after importing the same image two times and clipping each of the two imported versions with a different vector shape.

[ivan louette (ivan-louette)]

Ooops ! It's even more strange :

I drew two rectangles side by side, then I clip the left one with a shape. When I click on the empty area on the right of this clipped object (thus in the direction of the second and not clipped rectangle which wasn't a duplicate of the left one) it select the clipped object and if I click on the left empty area, no selection occurs. But if I move the right not clipped rectangle to the left of the clipped object, then the noisy selection area move with it to the left.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> I just reproduced it also after importing the same image two times

Bug #365458 does depend on the number of objects in the same layer (iirc) or drawing, see for example another duplicate <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/395874>.

[ivan louette (ivan-louette)]

Here is the file with a rectangle clipped by a star on the left and a non clipped rectangle on the right.

If I click in the empty area on the right of the star that select it.

[ivan louette (ivan-louette)]

Here is the same file as noisy-select1 where I only moved the clipped star object to the right and the non clipped rectangle to the left.

If I click in the empty area between the rectangle and the star (thus on the left of the star this time), the star is selected.

[ivan louette (ivan-louette)]

Yes, now I understand it can be a duplicate of the Bug #365458 ! Sorry -SUV, I posted my two examples before receiving your reply.