GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 137692
Guides not going away when dragged off image
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
There appears to be no way to drag guides from an image to make them dissapear. Drag a guide from the middle of an image back to the ruler or off the the opposite side of the image and it will reappear where you dragged it from. Moving them is possible, however making them go away is not. I have also tried "toggle guides" in case it was some wierd video thing and they re-appear. Windows 2000 Gimp 2.0 pre 4 GTK 2.2.4-2
Works well here on Linux / X11.
Would someone try this with the gtk-2-2 branch from CVS please? There were some post-2.2.4 checkins to the win32 backend that may fix this.
Also I just tried this with win32 Gimp version 2.0.0 and gtk+-2.2.4-20040124 with the same results. I just found that it is possible to remove the guides, however in order to do this you have to make the window "containing" the image larger than the image itself so that there is grey padding around the image, then drag the guide into that. In gimp 1.2.x and gtk 1.3 (the version I just reinstalled to test this) this was not a requirement and as long as you dragged the guides away from anyplace where there *wasn't* image (i.e. the ruler area where you drag them from, or the scrollbars, or the desktop background away from the image window *or* the grey padding if the image window was larger than the image) they would dissapear. This may in fact not be a bug but a change in behavior?
sorry about the formatting^^ :(
No, there's no change in behaviour. On Linux the guides can be removed the same way as in 1.2. This seems to be a misbehaviour of the Win32 GDK backend. I am reassigning the bug-report accordingly. This bug was originally reported against GIMP 2.0pre4.
Can't reproduce with current CVS of GTK+ 2.2, gtk+-2.2.4-20040124, and not even with gtk+-2.2.4. Sorry.
*** Bug 138313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can't reproduce with GTK 2.4, current cvs either (under win98) - maybe this issue has somethig todo with special hardware or a loose contact in your mouse ;-) Is there anything special with you setup (dual monitor ur such like ?)
I installed The GIMP 2.0 downloaded through the gimp win32 page on 3 windows xp (2 homes, 1 professional) computers and i can reproduce the bug. i can send you a video of how the bug happens, if that'd be needed.
I do use a dual monitor setup at one of two locations, however this problem occurs even without the second monitor attached. My videocard is a Radeon 9000 pro with catalyst version 3.10 driversif that helps.
Another WinXP install here and I can easily reproduce the issue exactly as described (the only way to get rid of a guide is to create some excess space around your image and drag the guides into that void). Guides worked as documented in 1.2 and 1.3, but not (yet) in 2.0.0. It may be specific to NT kernels or even as specific as XP.
*** Bug 141265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ross, it definitely occurs in windows 2000 also.
I can't reproduce this problem in the stable gimp branch built against GTK 2.4.1.
This is presumably a dupe of bug #129095, which got fixed by Hans Breuer right after GTK+ 2.4.1 was released (but I still include the fix in my 2.4.1 build). Resolving as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129095 ***