Probably because the old paint bucket tool would behave differently under different circumstances, and that can be confusing. It's easier if a tool always works the same way. It also teaches better habits of using the select shape tool to edit fills/strokes.Farren wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:39 amBut why the change in behaviour from previous versions?synthsin75 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:45 am The paint bucket creates new shapes because it can also create shapes out of unconnected vector lines. Since the select shape tool is meant for editing the fills & strokes, the paint bucket assumes you're only using it to create a new shape when used on an existing one.
The paint bucket tool has a long history of being misused by new users. Once upon a time, Moho allowed you to stack shapes on the exact same vectors, and people would stack tons of shapes thinking they were editing the existing shape. This caused horrible aliasing when rendered. The previous paint bucket could still be used by new users thinking they were only editing a shape, but sometimes it would create new vectors. This could lead a new user to think something was wrong, in either the software or how they were using it. So the current paint bucket simplifies all these potential problems for new users.
And older users can always bring the previous version over to v14, if they can't live without it.