Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Bertie Coopersmith wrote: Thanks for telling me this. (I am not very gui-intuitive.) Now I see what you were talking about. However, unless there is yet another setting that I missed, the behaviours of the rectangular selection tool and the cropping tool are significantly different. I need all t

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread Bertie Coopersmith
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:41:23 +0200 David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no further dialog - there is a tool options dialog > however which opens when you double click on the tool in the > toolbox. The rect select tool is the dotted rectangle - the tool > which is selected by defau

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread David Neary
David Neary wrote: > Bertie Coopersmith wrote: > > Actually, I may have been wrong in my previous reply about this. That > > error may have occurred on gimp startup without my being aware of it. > > > > Therefore its not clear to me whether it had any connection with the > > fact that rectselect w

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread David Neary
Bertie Coopersmith wrote: > Actually, I may have been wrong in my previous reply about this. That > error may have occurred on gimp startup without my being aware of it. > > Therefore its not clear to me whether it had any connection with the > fact that rectselect was a do-nothing. (It did not ta

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread Bertie Coopersmith
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:33:32 +0200 David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know what you're doing - is this when the gimp is > starting up that you get this? > Actually, I may have been wrong in my previous reply about this. That error may have occurred on gimp startup without my be

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread Bertie Coopersmith
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:33:32 +0200 David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bertie Coopersmith wrote: > > I attempted David Neary's workaround which was to first use the rectselect tool > > specifying the required aspect ratio. Unfortunately I cannot do this and I think my > > gimp is a bit broken

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread David Neary
Bertie Coopersmith wrote: > I attempted David Neary's workaround which was to first use the rectselect tool > specifying the required aspect ratio. Unfortunately I cannot do this and I think my > gimp is a bit broken. This is what I get:- > --- > /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/aa:

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-30 Thread Bertie Coopersmith
I attempted David Neary's workaround which was to first use the rectselect tool specifying the required aspect ratio. Unfortunately I cannot do this and I think my gimp is a bit broken. This is what I get:- --- /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/aa: error while loading shared librarie

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is not immediately obvious to me how the two can inherit from > a common object. Me neither, but I wanted to make some people think about it. As you pointed out already, there are several possible solutions. Duplicating the code seems to be the wo

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread David Neary
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It would be nice if the Crop tool supported the Fixed size/Aspect > > Ratio of the rect select tool. This would more or less be a copy > > & paste of code from gimprectselecttool.c too... > > Why duplicate code if we can

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a workaround which allows you to do exactly this. You > use the rect select tool with either fixed size or with the ratio > you're interested in (for example, when I take photos with my > camera, they're 2048x1572, and I crop them to the rati

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be nice if the Crop tool supported the Fixed size/Aspect > Ratio of the rect select tool. This would more or less be a copy > & paste of code from gimprectselecttool.c too... Why duplicate code if we can do this cleanly using object hierarch

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread Raymond Ostertag
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:02:29 +0200 David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a workaround which allows you to do exactly this. You > use the rect select tool with either fixed size or with the ratio > you're interested in (for example, when I take photos with my > camera, they're 2048x157

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread David Neary
Hi there, This must be a FAQ - do we have one of those for the user list? Bertie Coopersmith wrote: > A suggestion for the Gimp cropping tool dialog: > > How would the user set it? perhaps a new item, 'Aspect %', in the menu under > the 'px' button. - So minimal change to the present dialog. T

[Gimp-user] cropping to pre-set aspect ratio

2003-07-29 Thread Bertie Coopersmith
A suggestion for the Gimp cropping tool dialog: I would like to be able to pre-set an aspect ratio and then, as one dragged the mouse in the guestimated direction of the diagonal of the cropping rectangle the mouse pointer would move along the actual diagonal so that the rectangle maintains a con