Hello~!

I'm brand new to digital art, and I'm using a Surface 3 tablet with a Surface 4 pen. I'm on the latest Windows 10, and using Krita 3.1.4.

It mostly works great, after figuring out how to get pressure working. But it has a few quirks, and this is the worst one so far: The first time I flip my pen to erase in a new project, it takes whatever tool I was drawing with and never seems to change again.

For example, if I draw an ellipse and then flip my pen, it will erase ellipses, too -- and I can't make it stop erasing ellipses without restarting Krita, even if I switch to my brush tool. Ideally, I just want my eraser to always be in brush mode... but I'd settle for being able to change it at all!

Hello dawnnull, and welcome to the forum.
Just in case, there has been quite a lot of reports on the eraser switching recently: http://tiny.cc/2efgmy (keyword "eraser").

This should be fixed in 3.1.4... Are you sure you are using the latest version? Also, the way to turn off erasing is "E"

TheraHedwig wrote:This should be fixed in 3.1.4... Are you sure you are using the latest version? Also, the way to turn off erasing is "E"

Hello!

I'm definitely using 3.1.4, according to the splash. However, I think you (and the poster above you) may be confusing this with another similar issue. The problem isn't that I get stuck in eraser mode -- it switches back to drawing mode just fine when I flip back. The problem is that the eraser itself ends up copying my drawing tool the first time I use it, like erasing ellipses if I was just drawing ellipses, and then the eraser itself is stuck on that first tool, so I can only erase (for example) ellipses with my eraser from then on. Because the eraser does switch back to draw mode when I stop using it, I don't know how to manually set my eraser tool, because I can't tap a tool button until I lift my eraser and return to drawing mode... and I'd rather my eraser always be a brush anyway.

Well, it's specifically the "surface eraser" -- which is a weird thing in itself. I haven't got a surface 4 pen, and my surface 3 pen doesn't have an eraser end to the stylus, so I cannot check what's up.

boudewijn wrote:Well, it's specifically the "surface eraser" -- which is a weird thing in itself. I haven't got a surface 4 pen, and my surface 3 pen doesn't have an eraser end to the stylus, so I cannot check what's up.

I don't know Krita's codebase, but I'm a professional software dev, I bet I can get it compiling. Is there some specific debug info that would help here?