My apologies for the lame answer, only just realised after reading earlier
posts that bezier isnt the tool your looking for. Michaels post of alpha to
selection, then selection to path sounds like it may be what your looking
for.
Nigel
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> Try using the bezier tool to draw your path instead of a pencil
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew J Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Alex Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:04 AM
> Subject: RE: Two How-to Questions
>
>
> >
> > Alex,
> >
> > No, that is not what I want (at least I dont think so....I am not sure
> what
> > you mean by Free Select tool). What you have suggested makes a selection
> of
> > the boundary itself, but I want to be able to select the area inside the
> > boundary.
> >
> > Consider the GFig function again. You draw a shape in GFig, with the
> > settings on the Paint tab set to "Draw on New" and "Using selection".
Then
> > when you click the Paint button, it draws a selection in the shape that
> you
> > drew in GFig. It is this functionality that I want, but I don't
> necessarily
> > want to use GFig. In other words, you use the pencil tool to draw a
closed
> > path and then you obtain a selection using that path.
> >
> > Hope that clarifies things. Its a very simple request but difficult and
> > confusing to describe.
> >
> > Thanks again for your help.
> >
> > regards,
> > Andrew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Alex Harford
> > Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 2:07 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Two How-to Questions
> >
> >
> > Andrew J Fortune wrote:
> > >
> > > Alex.
> > >
> > > Thanks for replying. I'm not sure how to reword the first question -
so
> > I'll
> > > try to give an example....
> > >
> > > Suppose you select the pencil tool, go into GFig and draw a geometric
> star
> > > and then press the Paint button to draw it on the canvas of the
current
> > > file.....you have created a closed "path" in the shape of a star....
> > >
> > > How do you then turn that into a selection so that any operations that
> you
> > > perform after that is constrained to the boundaries of the star that
you
> > > have drawn ?
> > >
> > > Note that this is only an example - I am looking for a generic
solution
> > that
> > > would apply to any closed path that you draw on the canvas.
> >
> > Aha... then you would be talking about Paths being automatically
> > created, something that isn't implemented yet. Care to do some coding?
> > :) I would do what Ian wrote, use the Fuzzy Select tool (similar to the
> > Magic Wand) to get the outline, and then used the Free Select tool with
> > the Shift key to add the two selections together.
> >
> > Alex Harford
> > Author of "GIMP Essential Reference"
> > http://www.dowco.com/~alexh
> >
>
