How to keep a stencil map visible?

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Hello friends,

I always forget the hotkeys for the stencil map controls. And so i thought i make me some buttons from the operators.

The operator works. But the stencil map disappears in the moment when i hover over the sidebar, the tool shelf or a menu, means when i click at my transform buttons. And then i cannot see anymore what i move, rotate or scale.

I understand that the stencil map may be in the way when you try to rotate the object for example. But i would love to keep the stencil map visible when i am over a menu or over another editor type. You can’t even adjust angle and offset in a proper way since the stencil map disappears when you are over the sliders to do so.

Could you please give me a hint where this visibility behaviour can be found in the code?

Kind regards
Arunderan

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Stencil drawing is part of cursor drawing in paint_cursor.c. To change this behavior, you’d need to move it into a function like view3d_draw_region_info, to make it part of 3D viewport drawing.

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I see. I looked in the wrong region. Many thanks :slight_smile: