Hi,

I just noticed a serious UI issue. Say I'm zoomed in and am creating a complex freehand selection. I'm now selecting stuff at the very top of the canvas, and I happen to miss a bit and touch the 'ruler'. Suddenly, GIMP switches to the move tool and I've lost the whole selection! Does anyone know if this behaviour can be turned off?

(I know I can turn off the rulers, but it's annoying having to turn them off and on all the time since they are sometimes useful.)

Using Gimp 2.6.11 and PCLOS

What happens here.

This only happens if the image completely fills the window and with the scissors or paths tools, the free select is not affected. A solution might be to increase the size of the window so that there is a border. This does mean that high zoom levels are not available.

Next strange effect. The path tool is ok, go into the border and the generated selection follows the edge of the image. The scissors tool, going completely into the border and the selection snaps to 9 pix into the image. Keeping the tool exactly on the border even at high zoom does work.

I would say, maybe, if you are using high zoom so no border available + shaky hand, then steer clear of the ruler and finish off with quick mask.

Hi,
unhammer@fsfe.org (2011-11-26 at 1323.00 +0100):

I just noticed a serious UI issue. Say I'm zoomed in and am creating a complex freehand selection. I'm now selecting stuff at the very top of the canvas, and I happen to miss a bit and touch the 'ruler'. Suddenly, GIMP switches to the move tool and I've lost the whole selection! Does anyone know if this behaviour can be turned off?

You are probably starting the process to add a guide (you have to drag into the image for the guide to appear, and you can drag them to the guides to remove them). If you lose the marching ants, that is a bug; if you lose the widgets to create a selection, that is the normal way it behaves. It could be nice if the selection tools would not lose previous half done selections.

For now, you should be able to move the image to get some extra padding and avoid misses (also great when working with paint tools, as it allows starting the stroke outside). Use MB2 (or hold Space? I always forget, that one is "compat" mode) to pan around the window, instead of the scrollbars.

GSR