Thanks Saul. (Leaving text below in case this s/b the basis for a bugreport ...) a) I can drag and drop in the Layers dialog - but never see the '+'-sign in the cursor. b) In your video (I stepped through it frame by frame so I'm pretty sure I have this correct) as soon as you grabbed the layer and moved it up to the channels icon to open the channels dialog the '+' sign appeared and (I think(?)] was visible until you dropped it "below the line - below the components section - into the channels section.
When I do it (again Windows XP, same in both GIMP 2.6.6 and GIMP 2.7 r28070) the '+' sign never appears while dragging in the image dialog and only appears when dragging in the channels dialog if I position my cursor to the right of where a fairly short channel name would appear - or if none yet, to the right of where it would be. (If description is 10 characters (say) "background copy" the "+" sign appears when cursor is over the 'c' in "copy" or further right - otherwise it is not shown). When '+' displayed drop will be successful otherwise it fails. . When I was first trying to follow your description I didn't have my cursor far enough right and first time I managed to do it had confused myself into thinking it was a matter of how close cursor was to the separator line :-( For improved discoverablity suggest that the '+' sign s/b added to drag-drop anywhere its legal to drop and in particular only be removed in the Channels dialog when cursor is over the components section but reappear when cursor is *anywhere* below the line. I *think* but not sure about this, that '+' sign should appear when cursor is over the "Channels " icon allowing drop there - which should automatically drop it in the same place that a new channel would be created if user keyed Shift+[New] button. can anyone confirm/refute above using Linux/Mac/Windows build? btw: Once I got the above straight your "recipe" worked great on the sample image. saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: > Quoting Alec Burgess <bura...@gmail.com>: > >> Saul: >> You said >>> 1. Drag your original layer over to the Channels Dialog and drop >>> it, creating a new channel. >> In your video, when you drag the image from the layer dock up to the >> channels dock your cursor has a '+' sign inside the >> _ >> |+ ... when I do it I have no plus sign and when the channels dock >> opens and I drop the dragged item just disappears without raising a new >> channel. > > Just to be clear, after the Channels Dialog is raised (this feature > thanks to Michael Natterer :) ), you must move the pointer down to the > "channels" section of the dialog (as opposed to the "components" part > at the top with the red, green, and blue components). The "+" symbol > should appear when the pointer is hovered in the droppable region -- > if you had some channels already there then the "+" would only appear > when you are between channels (there would also be a horizontal line > similar to what appears when dropping layers in the Layers Dialog). > >> I'm using 2.6.6 on Windows XP. I tried modifier keys Shift and Ctrl and >> Shift+Ctrl just in case but can't get the '+' sign to appear in the >> cursor and more importantly can't get the auto-creation of a new >> channel. > > I do not use Windows so I doubt I can be of much help. You should > check to see if you can drag-n-drop layers in the Layers Dialog to > reorder your layerstack (instead of a "+" symbol, you will see an > arrow because you are not copying the layer, but moving it). > > You should also see if, in the Channels Dialog, you can drag one of > the components (red, green, or blue) down from the top and drop it in > the channels list. If you have problems doing either of these then it > is possibly owing to a bug in the Windows version of GIMP. > > > > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
