In that case, I'll replan my efforts and take a look over the xml version. I thought posting to the list would give a reason why not to do it so that I don't go through the agony of writing that code. Thanks for the ideas. On 19 Mar 2001 17:57:54 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Chuck Mason <chuckjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > A couple days ago I went browsing thru the gimp TODO for things, > > well, to do. > > You should stay with TODO.xml. TODO is outdated and unmaintained and > not really a list of stuff todo, but rather a list of some good and > some bad ideas that have come up over the last years. > > > I came across the crop tool idea (the one that mentions blending/filling > > with colors etc.) and decided "hey, that wouldn't be too hard." > > I've got the impression you implemented something different than what > is mentioned in the TODO. The TODO mentions a GUI-only feedback during > the process of selecting the area to be cropped. This means temporary > shading (or filling) the areas outside the selected rectangle somewhere > in the compositing pipeline to give the user a better impression of > what the result will look like. > > Did I get you right, that you thought about filling the region outside > the cropped area permanently as an alternative action of the Crop tool? > If so, I doubt this is a useful addition, since this can easily be > done by using rect-select, invert-selection, bucket-fill. > > > Salut, Sven > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >
