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Free select tool in 2.6

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Free select tool in 2.6 Jeffery Small 19 Jul 10:48
  Free select tool in 2.6 Martin Nordholts 19 Jul 11:03
Free select tool in 2.6 Jeffery Small 21 Jul 10:22
Jeffery Small
2010-07-19 10:48:36 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Free select tool in 2.6

I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8. The free select tool has changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when dragging the cursor. Is there a way to re-establish the old behavior so that holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to define a region will automatically close when the mouse button is released? There is no mention of this in the manual.

Thanks. --
Jeffery Small

Martin Nordholts
2010-07-19 11:03:53 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Free select tool in 2.6

On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Jeffery Small wrote:

I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8. The free select tool has changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when dragging the cursor. Is there a way to re-establish the old behavior so that holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to define a region will automatically close when the mouse button is released? There is no mention of this in the manual.

Hi

There currently is no way to do this, but note that you can press Return to close a pending free selection, so you can replace

1. Drag and release

with

1. Drag and release 2. Press Return

HTH,
Martin

Jeffery Small
2010-07-21 10:22:07 UTC (over 14 years ago)

Free select tool in 2.6

Martin Nordholts writes:

On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Jeffery Small wrote:

I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8. The free select tool has changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when dragging the cursor. Is there a way to re-establish the old behavior so that holding down the left mouse button and dragging the cursor to define a region will automatically close when the mouse button is released? There is no mention of this in the manual.

Hi

There currently is no way to do this, but note that you can press Return to close a pending free selection, so you can replace

1. Drag and release

with

1. Drag and release
2. Press Return

HTH,
Martin

Martin:

Thanks for the great piece of information. That will help out greatly.

Regards, --
Jeff