On Wednesday 01 March 2006 03:53 pm, Colin Brace wrote: > On 3/1/06, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You do not select content on the image, rather the text window > > dialog pop up with your text in it (and the tool options > > parameters change for that of the font used in the active layer). > > > > But you have a point, the UI should have a way to indicate that, > > if clicked, the existing text will be edited. > > Another problem is is that there is no visible indication that a > text object is selected. When a text layer is active, the text > object is displayed with a box around it, whether it is selected or > not. Every time I try to move a text object, 75% of the time I end > up moving the underlying canvas, and I have to keep undoing and > clicking on the text object until I succeed in selecting *just it*. > I go through this every time I create text, since inevitably the > text is not positioned where I want it when I first add it. >
That is easy: hold shift while using the move tool. That will make the GIMP pick the active layer, regardless of where you click. > -- > Colin Brace > Amsterdam _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
