This can also potentially occur if you're using the lasso select on a
touchscreen/touchpad/tablet stylus, depending on those devices' pressure
sensitivity settings.
-- Stratadrake
strata_ran...@hotmail.com
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Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth.
> To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
> From: ofn...@gmx.com
> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:16:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] free hand selection tool ('lasso')
>
> On 13/11/15 16:08, glas wrote:
> > Whilst using this tool it has recently begun to draw its own lines part way
> > through and thus complete the selection for me - trouble is, I've never
> > finished
> > what I'm actually trying to select!! I've deleted and re-installed the
> > application, but it is still doing it. Has something changed (for example,
> > is
> > there perhaps a setting that says it should try to predict what I'm trying
> > to
> > select based on some algorithm or other)? Right now, the tool is completely
> > useless. Thanks
> >
>
> The tool does that when it gets a double-click, so it is likely that
> something in your system is emitting stray double-clicks. I have had
> this happen to me with an aging mouse (these double click are caused by
> worn out contacts bouncing). If you have a wireless mouse check the
> batteries.
>
> Btw, when this happens, all is not lost, you can add/subtract further
> selections to what you have got.
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