[Gimp-developer] New option for the fill tool (feature suggestion/request)

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

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?
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