GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 447183
eyedropper works not properly
Last modified: 2008-01-15 14:12:24 UTC
If you click the eyedropper it's not possible to pick a color outside of Gimp somewhere on the screen as described in the corresponding tool tip. It works well under Linux (Ubuntu).
What exactly does happen? Does it pick a color or not? What version of Windows are you using? What version of GTK+? The relevant code is in http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp/trunk/libgimpwidgets/gimppickbutton.c (gimp_pick_button_pick).
Sorry for my hasty report. I can pick a color but as a little excuse I thought I cannot because of the change of the cursor icon to the default window xp style outside of The Gimp native windows. This is different to Linux. I don't know if this could be changed.
GIMP does a pointer grab and specifies a cursor. This should work on Windows as well. You may want to make a simpler test case and file a bug report against GTK+ so that this can be fixed in the Win32 backend.
Pointer grabbing and the behaviour of the cursor during a grab are not 100% correcly emulated in gdk/win32.