On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:24:55AM +0200, Steve Crane wrote: > I was using gimp-2.0 (on Windows) for the first time last night and > noticed a difference in the snap to guide handling compared to > gimp-1.2.5. > > I often use guides to constrain rectangular selections and when the > selection is across the full width or height of the image I will > increase the size of the window so there is some space around the image. > I will then click and start dragging in the space around the image, move > into and right over the image and to the extent I want to select in the > other dimension. The selection snaps to the guide and displays its > marching ants outside the image, into the space around it. When the > mouse button is released the selection shrinks so only the area within > the image itself is selected. > one of the big differences between gimp-1.2 and this new thing is the tool options dialog. i had this same problem a while ago. double click on either the rectangular or elliptical tools and you will see an "auto shrink selection" option that is the default behavior.
i suspect they put it there so we can still find some of the nice gimp-1.2 users out that did not complain much and just used it. i hope i understood the problem alright ... carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
