Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts
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| Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts | Carusoswi | 08 Nov 04:36 |
| Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts | nirwana | 08 Nov 12:50 |
| Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts | devvv | 08 Nov 13:20 |
| Text entry-keyboard captured as shortcuts | Carusoswi | 09 Nov 15:51 |
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I don't know how else to express it, but I'm running a fresh install of Gimp 2.7.1. The freshness because I just installed Ubuntu-Studio as a fresh install, so had to install 2.7.1 also freshly.
Everything appears to be working except that when I want to enter text, I select the text tool with my mouse pointer, draw a box on the canvas, I can double click in the box, but no insertion cursor appears. Further, if I try to type anything, other tools are highlighted (letter E activates the elipse selection tool, for example).
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Oh, one more thing, how can I enter text the old way instead of using the on canvas option? I've made this selection, but don't remember how I got there.
Caruso
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Oh, one more thing, how can I enter text the old way instead of using the on canvas option? I've made this selection, but don't remember how I got there.
I believe the on-canvas text editing is the default for GIMP 2.7. If you prefer "the old way" you can select "Use Editor" in the options of the Text tool. You can also tell GIMP to "save tool options on exit" to make this the default for you.
However, I cannot test this on my Windows installation, because each time I click to put text GIMP crashes. But this is a development release, so I somehow guess this is already fixed in a next release. I guess I should install GIMP 2.7 on Ubuntu (from Git) to see how this feature is supposed to work.
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Oh, one more thing, how can I enter text the old way instead of using the
on
canvas option? I've made this selection, but don't remember how I got
there.
I believe the on-canvas text editing is the default for GIMP 2.7. If you
prefer "the old way" you can select "Use Editor" in the options of the Text tool. You can also tell GIMP to "save tool options on exit" to make this the default for you.
However, I cannot test this on my Windows installation, because each time I
click to put text GIMP crashes. But this is a development release, so I somehow guess this is already fixed in a next release. I guess I should install GIMP 2.7 on Ubuntu (from Git) to see how this feature is supposed to work.
The text tool is still a work in progress, as everything in GIMP 2.7. I guess the current state has not been merged to the git master. as for now you need to select the text layer in the layers dialog, then click the text on the canvas. No cursor is shown, but you can remove and write text. you can also double click a word to select it. There are some more bugs currently i guess... If text sunndely disappears or is duplicated you can use CTRL+Z to undo it and continue the work then.
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The text tool is still a work in progress, as everything in GIMP 2.7. I
guess
the current state has not been merged to the git master. as for now you
need
to select the text layer in the layers dialog, then click the text on the canvas. No cursor is shown, but you can remove and write text. you can also double click a word to select it. There are some more bugs currently i guess... If text sunndely disappears or is duplicated you can use CTRL+Z to undo it and continue the work then.
I certainly understand and expect a few problems when I install the unstable version of the software. I had (I believe) downloaded the necessary files from GetDeb when I originally installed 2.7 on my 9.04 version of UbuntuStudio. It seemed to be working fine as late as last weekend, except that the text on canvas box would grey out and hide your typing. Then, Ubuntu tempted me to upgrade, and, in the process, I broke my install. I had already downloaded the US DVD, so decided to upgrade to 9.10. Then, found that things have changed over at GetDeb, so that I had to get Gimp 2.7 via another method. I don't know if it's slightly different, or if there is something about UbuntuStudio 9.10 that is slightly different, or if I'm doing something wrong.
Fortunately, 2.6 runs just fine, and I can certainly live with it until these problems, whatever their source, get resolved.
Thanks for the replies.
Caruso
