As lobotomizing the select from shapes tool was rejected, would creating a new tool called the Polygonal Selection tool which would work in the way the lobotomized select from shapes tool does (rejected patch) be acceptable? If so, how about turning "intelligence" on with a checkbox in that tool. That way the select from shapes tool could be deprecated, and the intelligence could be added as a feature to both the polygonal selection tool as well as the lasso tool.

Thanks, Paul

Implementing this feature as requested, I find that there appears to be no way for a tool to handle a double click event as it is eaten further up. Is handling double click impossible from a tool? I currently have the tool autocomplete when someone hits enter, but I'm sure double click would be nicer.

Thanks!

I don't know what full specifications look like for tools in the gimp but here's a shot.

The Polygonal Selection Tool

Selects regions by connecting points clicked with line segments

Like polygonal select, shift on first click adds to selection, ctrl subtracts, both intersect, alt moves.

Holding shift after the first point has been placed constrains line segments to absolute angles divisible by 45.

Clicking the last point completes the selection, or hitting enter.

I'm not sure which is more congruent with the other tools, should the decision to "add, subtract, or intersect" selection with modifier keys be made upon enter or first click?

Thanks

On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 16:56 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:19 -0800, Paul Gnuyen wrote:

Implementing this feature as requested,

I don't think that a full specification of the polygonal selection tool exists, or am I missing something? I would very much appreciate if new tools or major modifications to existing tools could be discussed and specified before any code is written. Otherwise it's likely that changes will have to be rejected later, which is always frustrating for all parties.

Sven

Bug 119646's priority is marked as high, I thought this was accepted as desirable.

The polygonal select tool will act as the freehand tool, making quick additions and subtractions easily done. The path tool requires more clicking and does not support the enabling/disabling of feathering or antialiasing nor the ability to quickly make polygonal shape selections that are at controlled angles. People desire this tool as evidenced by the many dupes of the enhancement request. This is the way all other major graphics programs work, so people are used to this tool and are used to it's workflow.

While one could argue, that the freehand tool, polygonal select, and intelligent select could be merged into the same tool, polygonal selection was added to the select shapes from image tool, and was rejected on the basis that such functionality should not be hidden and be easier to access.

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 13:01 +0100, peter sikking wrote:

Paul Gnuyen wrote:

I don't know what full specifications look like for tools in the gimp but here's a shot.

The Polygonal Selection Tool

Selects regions by connecting points clicked with line segments

There is a cost (complexity, usage of UI bandwidth) to every tool that is added to GIMP.

May I ask why are you trying add a tool that does a small part of what the path tool does, and then an automatic path-to-selection?

If you can tell me why it is worth the cost, I can help you to make the specification better.

--ps

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