Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-14 Thread Christian
---BeginMessage--- Sven Neumann schrieb: Hi, On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:05 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: It's not entirely true to say you had to have used paths from the start, since you can save the first selection to a channel, make the new one with paths, including an approximate, much

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:47 +0200, Christian Scholz wrote: Most of the problems involve consecutive use of polygonal selection an other selection tools. E.g. I made a rectangular selection. Now I changed my mind and want to cut little triangles into the selection. However the only way

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:47 +0200, Christian Scholz wrote: [...] Most of the problems involve consecutive use of polygonal selection an other selection tools. E.g. I made a rectangular selection. Now I changed my mind and want to cut little triangles into the selection. However the only

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread The Peach
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:16:41 +0200 Sven wrote: That is not correct. You can create triangular path(s) using the path tool and subtract them from the existing selection. That's exactly what you would do with the polygonal selection tool if such a tool existed. maybe the polygonal selection

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:05 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: It's not entirely true to say you had to have used paths from the start, since you can save the first selection to a channel, make the new one with paths, including an approximate, much larger outer rectangle, and then convert to

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's not entirely true to say you had to have used paths from the start, since you can save the first selection to a channel, make the new one with paths, including an approximate, much larger outer rectangle, and then convert to selection and

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread saulgoode
Quoting The Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: maybe the polygonal selection tool is just syntactic sugar. a sort of one click less than using the path tool. So, if this is the way to think about polygonal selection tool, then add a default keybind for make it a selection, ... Try hitting the ENTER

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread The Peach
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:53:35 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ENTER key d'ho! -- Matteo 'Peach' Pescarin Jabber ID = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site = http://www.smartart.it GeCHI = http://www.gechi.it ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:48 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's not entirely true to say you had to have used paths from the start, since you can save the first selection to a channel, make the new one with paths, including an approximate, much