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Bug 796071 - Clicking outside of a selection frame creates a new, zero-size selection
Clicking outside of a selection frame creates a new, zero-size selection
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Tools
2.10.0
Other All
: Normal normal
: 2.10
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2018-05-13 16:37 UTC by Michael Schumacher
Modified: 2018-05-13 21:01 UTC
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Description Michael Schumacher 2018-05-13 16:37:24 UTC 
Try the following:

- Drag the rectangle or ellipse selection tool to start a selection
- Click outside of the selection frame

This creates a new, zero-size selection. The one for the ellipse tool is harder to spot, as no handles show up, just the cursor changes happen.

In 2.8, doing the same canceled the current selection without creating a new selection.

See https://old.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/8ixiij/annoying_bugs_in_2100_with_selection_tools/ for more details - I'm going to file a second bug for the move issue described there.
Comment 1 Michael Natterer 2018-05-13 21:01:50 UTC 
Fixed in master:

commit e9f2e82cff57004ddb4ac6c91c3fb1244aeb92bc
Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
Date:   Sun May 13 22:58:03 2018 +0200

    Bug 796071 - Clicking outside of a selection frame creates a new, ...
    
    ...zero-size selection
    
    Make sure that clicking outside any selection halts the rectangle
    select tool. This fixes ellipse select too.

 app/tools/gimprectangleselecttool.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)