My tools are working very similar to the original tools of Lost Marble. The main difference is the selection behaviour and there are some minor additional features.

All tools has a common, improved selection method. If you click somewhere outside of everything, it deselects all points. If you click on a curve, it selects a curve "segment" between the two closest junction points (with CTRL, you can select the whole curve). It is possible to click on a shape, to select its surrounding points. If you click on something where all selectable points are already selected, it deselects the points, otherwise it selects them. You can use the usual way to select with a rectangle and with lasso, even for bones.

Tool-specific information:
Add point	If there are one or more selected points, a new point connects curves to all of these points.
Bind points	You can select both the points and the bone to bind.
Create shape	It has a very similar selection method to the paint bucket tool. If you click inside a closed area, it selects the points of the closest surrounding curve.
Curvature	You can select points to set the curves you want to modify, and then if you click on a selected point, it becomes focused and you will modify only that point. It is possible to set the curvature numerically, and to set it to Peak or Smooth with buttons.
Freehand	It has an additional option to draw with fixed width lines. During drawing, with the SPACE key you can erase the last points, to insert a standalone peak point, ie. to draw a polygon.
Magnet	The magnet is working only on the selected points. Mirrored moving is possible to modify symmetric shapes easier.
Paint bucket	Selects the points correctly even if there are loops on the outline.
Polygon	It has no LM counterpart, it's to draw regular polygons and stars.
Reparent bone	It has a focus mark during selection to see which bone selected. On the toolbar it tells you why you can't select. You can drag the mouse from one bone to another to make a child-parent pair. Also you can swap the two ends of bones.
Replace line	It has no LM counterpart, you can replace the selected points with a freehand mouse stroke. It is possible to translate individual points and its line width handling is similar to the freehand tool.
Rotate points	You can replace the rotation center, and it is possible to use the center of gravity of the selection (useful for regular shapes). It is possible to translate and to scale the points with modifier keys. You can rotate by a specified angle number. It works even for bones.
Scale points	You can translate the points with an additional central handle. With the ALT key, you can rotate together with scaling.
Select points	To select points, shapes, bones.
Translate points	You can translate by a specified distance coordinates. It works even for bones.

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