I have been having some odd issues with the Local Adjustment control for the Control Point mask.
The first thing that happened is that somehow the settings got changed so that I could not add a Control Point without pressing the Control Key on the keyboard. The normal display showed a - sign next to the Control Point indicator when I moved the mouse and I had to press the Control Key to allow me to actually add the Control Point mask.
The second thing that happened is that somehow I completely lost the ability to add a Control Point. When I right-clicked I do the selection display but the Control Point icon was disabled and so could not be selected. See the attached photo.
The only way I could fix all of this was to exit PL4 and restart it, so I wonder if I did something to cause this or if there is a bug in the Local Adjustments functionality in PL4. Has anyone else see this?
Was it the case, Mike, that this occurred after you had left PL unused for some time (eg. while doing something else) - with this behaviour occurring when you recommenced using PL ?
If so, I’ve experienced that too - off and on, even before PLv4.
I have reported my experience - - and I understand it’s a known issue that’s proving difficult to nail down.
There were 2 issues - the first was that the Control Point icon was visible, but when I used it the mouse icon only showed the “-” sign and I had to press Control along with the mouse button to be able to create a Control Point. The second was that the icon entry completely disappeared from the selection display.
If I remember correctly the first happened after a break in processing but the second happened during the same processing session. Unfortunately I was experiencing so many issues at about the same time that I am not exactly sure of how much time might have passed. And I was trying so many keyboard presses (Control, Alt, Function, etc) along with the mouse click to try to fix the problem that I don’t really know if that did not cause it.
I was not aware that there was a known issue since I had never seen this with PL 3 but I will pay more attention to timing from now on with PL 4 and post if this happens again. If I do that I will probably also be able to file a support request.
