Brush strokes in Paintbrush tool don't appear under the cursor

[rolandixor]

Description
When I paint with the paintbrush tool, I noticed that the brush strokes don't always appear where the cursor is. This can be a bit confusing.

To Reproduce

• Choose paintbrush tool.
• Paint.

Additional Info

Version
3.0.3 - Flatpak

[rolandixor]

The faint brush spot nearest to the cursor is the example.

[cameronwhite]

I think that's probably specific to the Circles brush type? It has some logic that snaps to a grid-like layout of circles

Pinta/Pinta.Tools/Brushes/CircleBrush.cs

Line 49 in 9d75736

PointD center = new (

[rolandixor]

Yes and no - I had he same issue with other brush types but couldn't consistently replicate it (it happened the first time, then didn't repeat consistently for me to confirm. But the circles brush consistently does this.

[cameronwhite]

I haven't looked at the other brushes closely, but this seems to basically be done by design in the circle brush. Although we could look at revisiting that logic to see if there's a better approach

[rolandixor]

GIMP displays a shape around the cursor to help you determine where you will paint, and Inkscape's scatter tool also provides a visual indicator (in addition to the UI's ability to adjust the scatter distance). Would a similar solution work here? https://rolandixor.pro/portfolio https://rolandixor.pro

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