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Panning whilst using a tool Gallifreya 28 Oct 23:17
  Panning whilst using a tool rich2005 30 Oct 08:37
   Panning whilst using a tool Gallifreya 30 Oct 11:08
   Panning whilst using a tool Gallifreya 04 Nov 00:10
    Panning whilst using a tool Jehan Pagès 05 Nov 02:11
     Panning whilst using a tool Gallifreya 05 Nov 10:55
      Panning whilst using a tool Jehan Pagès 06 Nov 13:17
2016-10-28 23:17:24 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Panning whilst using a tool

I've made the shift from 2.6 to 2.8 a couple of months ago (don't judge me, when 2.8 first came out I was only just working out 2.6 and all the settings were intimidating, and after that I just forgot)

Anyway, in 2.6 if I was, for example, using a 30% opacity brush and wanted to continue outside my current painting area, I could use the middle click button on my stylus to grab the canvas, drag it over and continue without lifting the pen - avoiding me having to try and line up my brush with the edge of the last section I did to try and keep it from overlapping since I'm using a set opacity.

I could do the same thing if I wanted super precise selections - zoom in on the image, select tool, drag, and without lifting the pen pan over to the rest of what I wanted to select and continue.

In 2.8 I can't seem to do this. I reach the edge of my work area and have to lift the pen to make the panning option work, so if I want to work with opacities whilst zoomed in enough to see the detail of what I'm doing I have to try and carefully line up edges on each visible section.

I'm sure there were more things I used this feature for but I can't think of examples currently. Anyway is there a way to make this work again?

rich2005
2016-10-30 08:37:48 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Panning whilst using a tool

I've made the shift from 2.6 to 2.8 a couple of months ago (don't judge me, when 2.8 first came out I was only just working out 2.6 and all the settings were intimidating, and after that I just forgot)

Anyway, in 2.6 if I was, for example, using a 30% opacity brush and wanted to continue outside my current painting area, I could use the middle click button on my stylus to grab the canvas, drag it over and continue without lifting the pen - avoiding me having to try and line up my brush with the edge of the last section I did to try and keep it from overlapping since I'm using a set opacity.

This could be specific to your OS, but still working with my ancient wacom tablet and Kubuntu 16

You could try pressing the space bar, that toggles the move canvas action here.

rich www.gimp-forum.net

2016-10-30 11:08:08 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Panning whilst using a tool

This could be specific to your OS, but still working with my ancient wacom tablet and Kubuntu 16

You could try pressing the space bar, that toggles the move canvas action here.

rich
www.gimp-forum.net

I'm still using the same OS and tablet as I was when it worked in 2.6 - Win 7 and a Wacom intuos 5. Unfortunately the tablet is massive and covers the whole keyboard of my laptop, so the spacebar trick isn't really doable without lifting the stylus.

I was hoping it was just a setting to enable for this like there was to make the tablet usable in 2.8, or a plugin or something.

2016-11-04 00:10:53 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Panning whilst using a tool

This could be specific to your OS, but still working with my ancient wacom tablet and Kubuntu 16

You could try pressing the space bar, that toggles the move canvas action here.

rich
www.gimp-forum.net

I tried making one of the tablet buttons the space bar, and it still does nothing if I'm already using the stylus in gimp.

Jehan Pagès
2016-11-05 02:11:29 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Panning whilst using a tool

Hi

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Gallifreya wrote:

This could be specific to your OS, but still working with my ancient wacom tablet and Kubuntu 16

You could try pressing the space bar, that toggles the move canvas action here.

rich
www.gimp-forum.net

I tried making one of the tablet buttons the space bar, and it still does nothing if I'm already using the stylus in gimp.

Are you saying that you start panning in the middle of painting a stroke?

Jehan

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2016-11-05 10:55:24 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Panning whilst using a tool

Hi
Are you saying that you start panning in the middle of painting a stroke?

Jehan

Yes. In hindsight that's probably an easier way of putting it. Or at least I would like to but it doesn't work in 2.8.

Jehan Pagès
2016-11-06 13:17:54 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Panning whilst using a tool

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Gallifreya wrote:

Hi
Are you saying that you start panning in the middle of painting a stroke?

I can confirm it does not work. While painting, if I don't raise the pen tip a bit (so that it does not touch the tablet anymore), I can't pan. Actually this is the same when painting with the mouse: I can't pan while the mouse left button is clicked, by adding a middle click (or space bar).

I guess that could make sense that canvas-panning could make the the current painting-in-progress in "pause". Not sure how the implementation for this would be, but it could be worth checking out.

Could you please open a bug report about this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GIMP Please post the report link back on the mailing list after this. Thanks.

Jehan

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