Re: [Gimp-user] freehand selection lost since image was already selected

[Richard Gitschlag <strata_ranger hotmail com>]

> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> From: unhammer fsfe org
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:15:41 +0200
> Subject: [Gimp-user] freehand selection lost since image was already selected
>
> Say you've zoomed in to start this painstaking freehand selection with
> lots and lots of points, and when you get to the end, nothing gets
> selected. Then you notice that, once again, you had done a Select All
> some time ago (invisible because you zoomed in) and forgotten to Select
> None before clicking the lasso.

Alternate suggestion - when the current selection exceeds the boundaries of the current image window, render 
marching ants along the window's interior border.  (Maybe with half opacity to help distinguish it from the 
selection's actual edges.)

However, I also agree it's not a common issue because the default mode for all select tools is "replace".  
Note that when you use modifier keys to activate a selector mode you can release the modifier immediately 
after making the first click (useful for a variety of things, like constrained-angle-polygonal or 
square-not-rectangular selections).

-- Stratadrake
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