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Can't draw lines. - ranchdressing - 03-04-2021
Running 2.10.22 on OSX Big Sur 11.3. Whenever I click and drag to draw a line, it just creates a dot where I start and every time I stop. Happens with every drag and click tool. Changing size, color, etc does not help. Any advice would be appreciated.
RE: Can't draw lines. - Zero01 - 03-04-2021
(03-04-2021, 11:00 PM)ranchdressing Wrote: Running 2.10.22 on OSX Big Sur 11.3. Whenever I click and drag to draw a line, it just creates a dot where I start and every time I stop. Happens with every drag and click tool. Changing size, color, etc does not help. Any advice would be appreciated.
Could be as simple as not having a brush selected, common mistake, did you check that out of interest?
EDIT: Ah but you say it does produce a dot at each end, so probably not a brush issue... Have you clicked and dragged whilst pressing SHIFT? (I'm not a Mac person so not sure it's done that way)
RE: Can't draw lines. - ranchdressing - 03-04-2021
(03-04-2021, 11:04 PM)Zero01 Wrote:(03-04-2021, 11:00 PM)ranchdressing Wrote: Running 2.10.22 on OSX Big Sur 11.3. Whenever I click and drag to draw a line, it just creates a dot where I start and every time I stop. Happens with every drag and click tool. Changing size, color, etc does not help. Any advice would be appreciated.
Could be as simple as not having a brush selected, common mistake, did you check that out of interest?
EDIT: Ah but you say it does produce a dot at each end, so probably not a brush issue... Have you clicked and dragged whilst pressing SHIFT? (I'm not a Mac person so not sure it's done that way)
Yes and that is no help either
RE: Can't draw lines. - rich2005 - 03-05-2021
(03-04-2021, 11:55 PM)ranchdressing Wrote:Quote: .....snip... EDIT: Ah but you say it does produce a dot at each end, so probably not a brush issue... Have you clicked and dragged whilst pressing SHIFT? (I'm not a Mac person so not sure it's done that way)
Yes and that is no help either
A least someone gave up their valuable time and posted an answer.
The procedure is in the Gimp documents https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tutorial-straight-lines.html
With a drawing tool, click to establish the starting point
Hold the shift key down
Move the tool cursor to the end point and click.
A 30 second video of that: https://i.imgur.com/WCH1hyg.mp4 but an older macos and Gimp 2.10
If not working on your installation, then it is probably a bigsur issue, dont blame GIMP blame Apple.