cant erase brush strokes in toon boom harmony

Sometimes you’ll draw a straight-ass line, and Adobe Animate will suddenly want to pretend to be an old-school fountain pen and bleed all over your canvas. It will interpret a brush stroke as “I want to delete the entire fill selection that this stroke touches, because using a tool that CREATES pigment means that I want to ERASE it, surely.” Sometimes it will think that the brush tool is actually the eraser, despite the fact that you VERY CLEARLY have the brush tool selected. It’s also fucky at interpreting your audio so you’ll get desync issues or it’ll crackle when you export to video. It’s a garbage program that crashed on me (no joke, no hyperbole) at least a dozen times as I was working on this animation. That said, you should absolutely not use it. I can select my drawing with the select tool, move it, stretch it, I can also use the contour editor no problem, but I can't toggle show strokes, and I can't use the paint bucket.I use Adobe Animate, which is the re-branded version of Flash.

Mind you all the other tools seem to work. once again I can't see any strokes on the second half of the animation. Then I went to check it again and I opened it, and noticed I had made a mistake on some of the last frames.

So I finished painting, closed the program. In practice this mean my problem was fixed cause I had already painted the first half. It actually had reversed: Now the second half of the frames showed strokes and allowed me to use the paint bucket, but the first half didn't. Then I came back hours later and the problem was 'fixed'. I got frustrated and stopped working, but left toon boom open. So this meant I pretty much had to do half the cleanup all over again. If I drew more lines with the pencil tool on that frame, I could see those strokes, but still I couldn't see the strokes I had made before. I checked and yes, they were all on the same layer I was working on. The show strokes button wouldn't work on them, nor on any of the following frames, but it still worked on all of the previous frames. I mean, I could see my drawings, but it was like if toon boom just ignored them. I was painting using the paint bucket, everything was going smooth for about the first half of the animation, and then, I go one frame forward and suddenly I can't 'show strokes' anymore, and the bucket did nothing. Earlier it got randomly fixed but now its buggy again, and I don't know how to solve it. I have been running into what seems to me to be a bug.

I didn't even know how to change that, I didn't have that tool visible. I had accidentally drawn half the frames with line art as current layer, and half as colour art as current layer.

Cant erase brush strokes in toon boom harmony