Re: [Gimp-user] Free Select Lasso Tool - Please help me

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 13/10/15 00:25, Ladystar wrote:
> HI , I am an amateur gimp users, self taught through you tube, about five years
> in now.  Something has changed and no matter how many times i scrape gimp off my
> drive and reinstall (registry entries too), the issue remains the same.
>
> I can find no settings or options to affect this issue, so it must be something
> stupid I have changed or don't understand about the program.
>
> let's say as an example i paste a picture into my gimp frame and from within
> that picture I want to cut something out, using my lasso tool by clicking
> multiple points around the object closely and then CTRL X to cut it out.
>
> This tool has always worked 100 percent, but now when I attempt to laydown
> selection dots around my object, before i am finished laying down the dots, the
> dots behind me dissapear, or the dots close the loop in some intersected way
> that I didn't choose because i didn't get to finish going around my object.
>
> I am litterally losing my mind over this issue.  I have hit hte tool reset
> button, i have used all th different tool selection settings, I can't get it to
> let me finish selecting the object i want to cut out, without it finishing it or
> me too early and cutting across my object.
>
> I have attached a picture showing how the lasso tool closed the loop on me while
> I was still trying to go around the object with selection dots.
>
> Has anyone experienced this, can someone help me.
>
> thank you
> Ladystar
>
> Attachments:
> * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/223/original/lassotool.png

Gimp is being told by your OS that you double-clicked... So it's really 
a matter that for that particular use, you may end up clicking too many 
times or too fast.

Things to check:

1) if you have an old mouse (or even a recent Logitech MX that wear off 
fast), the left click contact may be worn out and generating spurious 
clicks (when my two previous mice started dying on me, I first noticed 
in Gimp... because other apps a less sensitive to double clicks). Try 
another mouse.

2) if its a wireless mouse, check the batteries (or try with new batteries)

3) your OS has a mouse setting somewhere that determines how close two 
mouse clicks should be to be interpreted as a mouse a click. Narrowing 
that interval could help.