Hi Shin,

I'd hardly find this useful but for some very specific patterns.

Instead, I'd suggest you tried using layers and layer masks in your workflow, more or less like this: once you select the area to be filled, create an empty layer, create a layer mask on it, choose "from selection" (and empty your selection afterwards)
There you are - you now fill the whole layer with your pattern and transform it however you like, with translation (not move tool), scaling, rotation, etc...

js
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On Thursday 22 November 2007 02:14:56 pm Shin Diggar wrote:

Sorry, I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't know how to do this myself but I'd like to suggest a new feature for the fill tool.

How about an option to use the cursor position as a start point for tiling fill-patterns rather than the top left corner of the layer? Perhaps this could be greyed-out when fill mode is set to colours rather than patterns.

I still want the whole layer/selection filled, but wherever the cursor is when I click it is where the top-left pixel of the filling pattern should be aligned to.

I'd find this useful sometimes, would anyone else? __________________

Shin Diggar wrote:

Sorry, I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't know how to do this myself but I'd like to suggest a new feature for the fill tool.

How about an option to use the cursor position as a start point for tiling fill-patterns rather than the top left corner of the layer? Perhaps this could be greyed-out when fill mode is set to colours rather than patterns.

I still want the whole layer/selection filled, but wherever the cursor is when I click it is where the top-left pixel of the filling pattern should be aligned to.

I'd find this useful sometimes, would anyone else?

That sounds like a sane idea to me, but it's a sad to add another tool option for this. Would be great if you could figure out a way to add support for this without adding another tool option. You could try turning to gui.gimp.org for input.

Regards, Martin Nordholts