[photodesk] Re: crash when moving an area
- From: CJE Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: photodesk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:26:30 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu 26 Jan, Jim Nagel (lists) wrote:
>
> I have a simple bitmap diagram and I want to move one rectangular
> section just a wee bit downwards.
>
> I "drag out the area to copy".
> Photodesk says "Reposition the selection or copy it to the clipboard."
>
> If I reposition it, bits of the original section remain visible.
> Is this a bug?
When you say 'bits of the original selection remain visable' do you mean the
portion of the original not covered by the moved section? Unless I'm missing
something, Photodesk has a Copy function, not a Move function, so the
original should remain as was but allow you to copy a portion (the selected
area) elsewhere in the image.
> So I copy it to the clipboard,
> and paint out the old section with its background colour.
> Now on clipboard, I "drag out the area to copy" (all of it);
> Photodesk says "Reposition the selection...";
> I drag it to the new position in main window
>
> Crash! Crash like I've never seen this RiscPC do before:
> the TFT screen just goes black and "No signal" appears.
> Alt-Break does nothing, Ctrl-Break does nothing,
> finally switch off the power and reboot. All seems OK.
>
> Is unstable behaviour like this common with Photodesk?
This is certainly the first time a problem of this nature has been reported
to us. Are you able to reproduce the problem in a way that would allow the
programmer to see it happening?
> Repeated the whole exercise, and this time achieved desired result:
> just dragged the selected area (all) from clipboard to main window, no
> problem. Fix it (spacebar), save it (F3).
> But then I load the saved file into another bitmap editor (David
> Pilling's !Scan) and the area of my selection is blank!
>
> What am I failing to understand? This operation should be simple.
Did you click the 'Tick' icon to fix the selection in place? If not, what
you're seeing on screen is still a preview.
Andrew
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