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> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:12:22 +0100
> From: kolbjoern stuestoel no I just discovered something interesting -- REALLY interesting.> To: gimp-developer-list gnome org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection lost while working on multiple images. Missing feature or bug? > > Den 17.02.2013 20:22, skreiv Tobias Oelgarte: > > Hello, > > > > I open two images in Gimp 2.8.4 and create an selection (for example > > rectangle selection) for the first image. If i now switch to the > > second image and do an selection as well, then the selection on the > > first image is gone if i switch back. Is this intentional or a bug? > > From the user perspective it would be nice to have independent > > selections for individual images/documents. > > I do not know whether it is intentional or not but I guess it is. > As long as you are able to resize the first selection it is in fact not > created. The selecting tool is engaged making the selection. Trying to > create another selection will therefore close the former attempt. > > If the selection is finished it is another task. The tool is ready for > another job. > Try: Create a selection in image one. Click another tool in the toolbox. > Then move to image two, activate the selection tool again and create a > new selection. The selection in image one is still there. 1 - Create any two convenient images. 2 - Make a Rectangle selection on the first image. 3 - Look at the image's Edit menu. Obviously, it says "Undo Rectangle Select" and (can't redo). 3 - Make a Rectangle selection on the second image. 4 - Go back to image 1 and check your Edit menu again. Now it says (can't undo) and "Redo Rectangle Select". Why can't you "Undo" the first selection anymore and where did this "Redo" entry suddenly come from? Your selection didn't just vanish - it got UNDONE. All you have to do is Redo it, and you get your selection back (minus the handles) in a heartbeat! This is actually quite instructive -- it implies that whenever you adjust a rectangle or ellipse selection via handles, what GIMP does internally is Undo the selector action from its old position and then re-apply it at the new location. (Which is corroborated by another observation - create a Rectangle select, adjust it via handles, then Undo it. Instead of returning to the selection's previous size/position, as would be the case with separate Undo steps, the rectangle disappears in a single step!) So the question that remains is - if you switch between images and do another select with the same tool, why does GIMP need to Undo the first one at all? It's got to be a bug. -- Stratadrake strata_ranger hotmail com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. |