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Bug 315152 - rectangle select drag outline is almost invisible on transparency pattern
rectangle select drag outline is almost invisible on transparency pattern
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 148202
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Tools
2.2.x
Other Windows
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-02 20:56 UTC by Joachim Noreiko
Modified: 2008-01-15 12:59 UTC
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Description Joachim Noreiko 2005-09-02 20:56:17 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Windows 2000 SP4

When click & dragging to select an area with the rectangle select, a solid line
is drawn to show the extent of the eventual selection.
Every time this reaches the boundary between squares of the transparency
pattern, it's hard to see it.
This gets harder and harder to see at higher zoom levels.
At 400%, every other pixel is on a boundary.
At 800%, the grid and pixels match and it's almost invisible.


This is almost impossible to see when it is over parts of the image that have
the grid pattern that indicates transparency.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2005-09-03 06:16:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148202 ***
Comment 2 Albert Cahalan 2006-12-14 05:10:18 UTC 
I don't think this is a dupe of #148202.

In #148202, the problem is that XOR of 0xff with dark grey colors (near 0x7f and 0x80) just gives more dark grey. (fix: XOR with 0x80 instead)

To a limited extent that occurs with this bug too, but the main problem is different. The line is being drawn along a checkerboard pattern, and it is snapping right to the checkerboard grid. Fix: make the line much thicker.