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The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

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SHIRAKAWA Akira
2009-07-27 13:04:39 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

Hello,

I don't know if this is a bug, but it doesn't seem a normal behavior so I'm reporting it.

Let's start from the beginning: I'm a Wacom Intuos4 pen tablet user who uses GIMP 2.6 under Windows 7 RC. Intuos tablet drivers enable different pen and tablet settings depending on the active program. So I have set up my personal keys and shortcuts configuration for gimp-2.6.exe ... but the problem starts here.

It appears that when I hover the pen cursor inside the active image window (where you draw, etc), tablet drivers don't recognize the area to be part of GIMP anymore.

How I discovered this: I've set up the main side button of the pen to execute CTRL-Z (undo). This combination works as long as the cursor is over any toolbar (main toolbar, color toolbar, layers, etc). But when it's inside the active image window, pen settings revert to default ones (side switch = right click). Oddly enough, if I hover the pen to the title bar of the active image window (where there are the filename, attributes and window control icons), the custom GIMP-2.6.exe controls I've set up start to work again.

Is this a GIMP/GTK bug? If not, how can I solve it? Can other Intuos tablet user verify is the same happens on their Windows pc?

Thanks in advance.

Emil Assarsson
2009-07-27 16:08:31 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

I can not confirm it under XP.

SHIRAKAWA Akira
2009-07-28 04:32:12 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

Emil Assarsson wrote:

I can not confirm it under XP.

Hmm... Probably Vista users may be able to replicate this issue.

SHIRAKAWA Akira
2009-08-24 14:32:33 UTC (over 15 years ago)

The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote:
[...]

It appears that when I hover the pen cursor inside the active image window (where you draw, etc), tablet drivers don't recognize the area to be part of GIMP anymore.

By the way, it appears that the 2.7 development Windows Build (which I downloaded from the GIMP-Windows project page) solved this problem.

Sven Neumann
2009-08-24 21:34:21 UTC (over 15 years ago)

The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 14:32 +0200, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote:

SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote:
[...]

It appears that when I hover the pen cursor inside the active image window (where you draw, etc), tablet drivers don't recognize the area to be part of GIMP anymore.

By the way, it appears that the 2.7 development Windows Build (which I downloaded from the GIMP-Windows project page) solved this problem.

Interesting. I don't think we changed anything related in our code.

Sven

SHIRAKAWA Akira
2009-08-24 21:42:47 UTC (over 15 years ago)

The inside of the active image window doesn't seem to be part of gimp-2.6.exe

Sven Neumann wrote:

Interesting. I don't think we changed anything related in our code.

I've checked again and the 2.6.7 version behaves correctly as well, now. I haven't made any changes to my system or tablet drivers since I first reported this problem.

I think this improvement could be probably due to some changes to the GTK+ libraries, which are included with GIMP Windows installers.