[Gimp-user] Questing re. keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
I tried to assign Alt+D or Alt+L to the Lens Distortion filter and in both cases the short cut assignment failed. I was able to assign other Alt combinations such as Alt+A or Alt+M. Can someone explain why the D and L attempts failed? Gimp 2.4.3 on a Sun SPARC Solaris 10 system. Thanks. -- Jeff

Re: [Gimp-user] Questing re. keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-03 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:37:19 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery Small) wrote: > I tried to assign Alt+D or Alt+L to the Lens Distortion filter and in > both cases the short cut assignment failed. Hi Jeff. Maybe, because Alt_L is the call to the Layer menu in the drawing window? I found that none of

[Gimp-user] Question re. tool slider settings

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
This is just a general question regarding the values from the various tool sliders. As an example, when I drag the Threshold slider for the Fuzzy Select tool, I get the following values: 0.0, 4.8, 9.6, 14.4, 19.2, 24.1, 28.9, etc. Similar odd sequences of numbers appear for other tool options suc

[Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
I'm using gimp 2.4.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 system. When using the rotation tool, I find that if I enter a number in the Angle box (say 17.50) and the image is rotated, if I then use the mouse to grab the picture and drag it a bit more in the direction of positive rotation, the image takes a huge jum

Re: [Gimp-user] Question re. tool slider settings

2008-01-03 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:47:55 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery Small) wrote: > I get the following values: 0.0, 4.8, 9.6, 14.4, 19.2, 24.1, > 28.9, etc. Make the tool pane wider, and you'll get other values. The slider simply subdivides the range into the number of steps the slider can make. John

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:00:46 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery Small) wrote: > Am I > misunderstanding something about how the dialog and the drag function > work? Put the cursor farther from the image centre todo the rotation, and you'll be able to do smaller rotation increments. You can even activa

Re: [Gimp-user] Questing re. keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
I wrote: > I tried to assign Alt+D or Alt+L to the Lens Distortion filter and in > both cases the short cut assignment failed. John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Maybe, because Alt_L is the call to the Layer menu in the drawing window? >I found that none of the underlined letters in the

Re: [Gimp-user] Question re. tool slider settings

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:47:55 GMT >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery Small) wrote: >> I get the following values: 0.0, 4.8, 9.6, 14.4, 19.2, 24.1, >> 28.9, etc. >Make the tool pane wider, and you'll get other values. The slider simply >subdivides the range int

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
> I wrote: > Am I misunderstanding something about how the dialog and the drag > function work? John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Put the cursor farther from the image centre todo the rotation, and you'll >be able to do smaller rotation increments. You can even activate rotation >inside

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.4 Script-fu problem

2008-01-03 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:09 -0200, John Coppens wrote: > The script is supposed to add a title on a selected place, and worked > fine under 2.2.x. Now, the text appears as a new layer, but the color > isn't right, the layer seems blocked (cannot select another layer)while > it's still floating, t

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.4 Script-fu problem

2008-01-03 Thread Sven Neumann
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:09 -0200, John Coppens wrote: > Hello people. > > I just compiled and installed Gimp 2.4.3, and it seems to be working fine. > Except that the two scripts I once made didn't work anymore. I believe I > succeeded in correcting the differences for TinyScheme, but in one of

Re: [Gimp-user] Questing re. keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:56 +, Jeffery Small wrote: > I would like to suggest that the gimp developers consider displaying > these menu shortcuts in the Keyboard Shortcuts dislog and making them > reassignable for those of use who don't otherwise use them. You can already turn mnemonics

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:00 +, Jeffery Small wrote: > I'm using gimp 2.4.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 system. When using the rotation > tool, I find that if I enter a number in the Angle box (say 17.50) and the > image is rotated, if I then use the mouse to grab the picture and drag > it a bit m

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:00 +, Jeffery Small wrote: > I'm using gimp 2.4.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 system. When using the rotation > tool, I find that if I enter a number in the Angle box (say 17.50) and the > image is rotated, if I then use the mouse to grab the picture and drag > it a bit more i

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread norman
> > That's interesting. It is consistently reproducible here. I just loaded > another jpeg image, rotated it 20 degrees in the dialog. Then no mater > where I grab the image and drag a bit, as soon as I release mouse button > B1, the image jumps back to a small positive angle of rotation and t

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Leonard Evens
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:00 +, Jeffery Small wrote: > > I'm using gimp 2.4.3 on a Sun Solaris 10 system. When using the > rotation > > tool, I find that if I enter a number in the Angle box (say 17.50) > and the > > image is rotated, if I then use the mouse to grab the picture and > drag >

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-03-08 16:55]: > When I set the rotation to 20 degrees in the dialog, the image > immediately rotates what I presume is 20 degrees. If I then click in > the image, the 20 degree setting is negated with the mouse

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:22:23 + norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I couldn't resist having a go. In every case I tried, when I set the > correction to any number of degrees and then clicked inside the grid, > the grid jumped towards zero. However, when I manually rotated the grid, > and then

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.4 Script-fu problem

2008-01-03 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:40:04 +0100 Pere Pujal i Carabantes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The script is supposed to add a title on a selected place, and worked > > fine under 2.2.x. Now, the text appears as a new layer, but the color > > isn't right, the layer seems blocked (cannot select another

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:22 +, norman wrote: > > > > That's interesting. It is consistently reproducible here. I just loaded > > another jpeg image, rotated it 20 degrees in the dialog. Then no mater > > where I grab the image and drag a bit, as soon as I release mouse button > > B1, t

Re: [Gimp-user] Odd behavior with rotation dialog

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Ah, now I see what you are doing differently. You guys are activating >the tool from the Layer->Transform->Arbitrary Rotation menu. I haven't >done this in years. Indeed, there seems to be a bug in the Rotate tool >when it is being called from the menus. Y

Re: [Gimp-user] Questing re. keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-03 Thread Jeffery Small
Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >You can already turn mnemonics off if you don't like them. From the >gimprc manual page: > (menu-mnemonics yes) > When enabled, GIMP will show mnemonics in menus. Possible values > are yes and no. Sven: Thanks for the tip! That's just wha