On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Garry R. Osgood wrote: > Tom Rathborne wrote: > > > I just noticed this new CVS entry: > > > > Fri Feb 4 18:27:16 CET 2000 Stanislav Brabec <utx@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > * app/global_edit.c: edit_fill with foreground, not background. > > > <snipped...> > > Indeed, some of the 1.2 - revised books are well into pre-press > and some are out in the market. These books suffer too. > > >From "Gimp - Essential Reference (Covers GIMP 1.2, GTK 1.2 and > Script-Fu" by Alex Harford, published by New Riders (Page 32): > > "Clear and Fill are simple tools for working with selections > and entire layers... <discussion of Clear omitted> ... The Fill > ([Ctrl+.]) operation adds paint to the current selection. The selection > is always the *background* color even if there are layers or an Alpha > channel. <emphasis mine> Fill is therefore useless when working > with a flat image without an Alpha channel because it has the same > effect as Clear..." Well, the publisher knew that they were rushing this when they released the book already. I will note this on my errata page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Harford Alcohol and calculus don't mix. http://www.dowco.com/~alexh Don't drink and derive. alexh@xxxxxxxxx Tel: (604) 225-0601
