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pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

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pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite Cristian Secar? 01 Aug 22:31
  pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite Cristian Secar? 01 Aug 22:46
   pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite LightningIsMyName 01 Aug 22:48
    pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite Sven Neumann 02 Aug 22:14
4C5A16C1.7030004@ieee.org 07 Oct 20:28
  pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite LightningIsMyName 05 Aug 06:51
Cristian Secar?
2010-08-01 22:31:00 UTC (over 14 years ago)

pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

Open the colors dialog (Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Colors). On the bottom of the panel, there is a button with a screen and an eyedropper over it. The floating tooltip says:

Click the eyedropper, then click a color anywhere on your screen to select that color.

Is this true on Linux ? (I cannot check) On Windows (Vista 64, GIMP 2.7.1, classic mode UI): - it does not work on the image itself or GIMP UI, in that a click anywhere on the image will set the foreground and/or background to black (has set both at different moments, but could not undesrtand why the one, or why the other)
- when the mouse cursor goes off the GIMP UI, the eyedropper turns to normal mouse cursor, thus not being able to pick anything

Apart from that, the "select" word is confusing, I think it would be better "pick" instead (assuming it should work as stated here http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-dialogs-content.html )

Cristi

Cristian Secar?
2010-08-01 22:46:10 UTC (over 14 years ago)

pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:31:00 +0300, Cristian Secar? wrote:

[...]
- it does not work on the image itself or GIMP UI, in that a click anywhere on the image will set the foreground and/or background to black (has set both at different moments, but could not undesrtand why the one, or why the other)

No, the last part I understand, I clicked accidentally the fg/bg rectangles (but the rest of my message remains true).

Cristi

LightningIsMyName
2010-08-01 22:48:41 UTC (over 14 years ago)

pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

Hello,

I discovered that when using windows it will indeed turn to the regular cursor when you leave GIMP's UI, but the "pick" functionality still works. Click anywhere on the screen - although GIMP's window will loose focus (in favour of the window you clicked on) the right color would still be picked (at least on my windows XP SP3 32).

On linux it works perfectly - the GIMP window doesn't even loose the focus.

If colour picking still doesn't work (check that if you click out of the window and go back to GIMP, if the foreground color was set to the right color) you are welcome to open a bug report at the GIMP bugzilla https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GIMP

~LightningIsMyName

Sven Neumann
2010-08-02 22:14:23 UTC (over 14 years ago)

pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 23:48 +0300, LightningIsMyName wrote:

Hello,

I discovered that when using windows it will indeed turn to the regular cursor when you leave GIMP's UI, but the "pick" functionality still works. Click anywhere on the screen - although GIMP's window will loose focus (in favour of the window you clicked on) the right color would still be picked (at least on my windows XP SP3 32).

On linux it works perfectly - the GIMP window doesn't even loose the focus.

If colour picking still doesn't work (check that if you click out of the window and go back to GIMP, if the foreground color was set to the right color) you are welcome to open a bug report at the GIMP bugzilla https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GIMP

If it doesn't work, then that's more likely a bug in GTK+ then.

Sven

LightningIsMyName
2010-08-05 06:51:15 UTC (over 14 years ago)

pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Burnie West wrote:

 On 08/01/2010 01:48 PM, LightningIsMyName wrote:

Hello,

I discovered that when using windows it will indeed turn to the regular cursor when you leave GIMP's UI, but the "pick" functionality still works. Click anywhere on the screen - although GIMP's window will

when you say "loose" I think you mean "lose", correct?

 loose focus (in favour of the window you clicked on) the right color would still be picked (at least on my windows XP SP3 32).

yes, it's a typo...

~LightningIsMyName