[Gimp-developer] moving selections

[Christian Henz]

Raphaël Quinet <raphael <at> gimp.org> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:25:01 +0400, "Alexandre Prokoudine"
<alexandre.prokoudine <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Say, I need to select a region and move it.
> > 
> > Documentation clearly states: "Click-and-drag then allows you to move
> > the selection and its contents, while the initial position remains
> > empty."
> > 
> > That bit of docs probably belongs to 2.2, but definitely not to 2.4:
> 
> Yes, the behavior has changed during the 2.3.x development.  Clicking
> without modifiers will now always start a new selection.  With 2.2 and
> previous versions, some users complained about the different behavior
> of the selection tools if you were clicking inside or outside an
> existing selection.
> 
> > While paste in place and under cursor definitely belong to 2.6, I
> > wonder if the move selection with its contents feature got lost due to
> > all the changes to rectangular tools.
> 
> Yes, there is:
>  - Alt+Ctrl moves the selected pixels.
>  - Alt+Shift moves a copy of the selected pixels.
> 

I'm currently struggling with this in 2.4.0-rc2:

After selecting a region, I can resize and move the selection by dragging
the mouse within the selection. When I press either Alt+Ctrl or Alt+Shift, I can
start a new selection within the area of the current selection. I have not found
a way to move the pixels yet (except cut-and-paste of course).

Also, In the move tool, the options in the "Selection" tab are always disabled,
and there are two entries named "Move selection".

cheers,
Christian