To quote from the V2.8 on-line documentation for the New View menu command:
"Any change, other than viewing changes, which you make in one window also appear in the other displays which show the same image. The new views are not separate image files; they are simply different aspects of the same image. You might use multiple views, for example, if you were working on individual pixels at a high zoom factor. You could then see the effects your changes would have on the image at a normal size." At the moment I think that this really only applies to the airbrush and the colour tools (Levels, Curves, Brightness etc). The paintbrush type tools (pencil, eraser etc) do reflect the changes but only when the mouse button is released (whereas the airbrush shows the line in all of the views as it is being drawn). More importantly the additional views are not updated during transform operations. In fact with the later versions of 2.9.5, in which the active layer is made transparent when the transform tool is activated, the additional views of an image with only one layer all change to the chequerboard pattern - which looks a bit odd and may be the cause of a number of questions/bug reports. Displaying the transform preview in the additional views would conform to the aim stated in the documentation of allowing views of the changes at different magnifications to that used for the active view. In particular it would allow a higher magnification to be used for an additional view to see the effects of the Unified Transform tool - where you can't zoom the active view otherwise the control handles are not visible and all you can do is rotate or move the image. Obviously this isn't a problem for the perspective, shear etc tools as the actions still accessible when zoomed in. Changing the paint tools so that they reflect the changes 'in real time' is trivial - in functions gimp_paint_tool_button_press() and gimp_paint_tool_motion() use the existing gimp_display_flush_now (display) call when the image has only one display (this makes the program more responsive), otherwise use gimp_image_flush(image). Unfortunately, however, I don't have the experience to suggest changes to make the transform preview appear in the additional views - this being by far the more useful change. -- programmer_ceds (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list