04-01-2022, 07:08 PM
(04-01-2022, 04:09 PM)programmer_ceds Wrote:(04-01-2022, 03:58 PM)PapaBear1 Wrote:(04-01-2022, 03:40 PM)programmer_ceds Wrote: Putting the move tool into selection mode moves the selection boundary - not the selected data. Cut or copy the selection data (depending on whether you want to move or copy it), paste it, move it where you want it and then anchor the floating layer (right-click "Layer/Anchor Layer") - no increase in the number of layers.
Note that you don't use the Move tool for this - after you paste the cut or copied selection the cursor changes to the move icon so that you can move the new floating layer where you want it.
Wow -
OK -
Wasn't expecting all that.
Seems like some gymnastics to go through - just to move a selection. Clearly - the intent is to move something when I go to use that tool. If I wanted to copy and paste something I would. When I use that tool - it is understood that I want to move something. Seems like it should automatically do what it takes to get that move done - without me having to Cut/Paste.
Oh well - at least I know how to do this now. It's just not intuitive. (That list is growing... ha...)
btw - I'm curious: What would be the purpose of the default behavior of moving "the selection" and not the content. It doesn't "do" anything that I can tell - so I just don't understand the purpose of it.
thanks very much!
But if the Move tool worked the way you said there would be no way to move the all selection boundaries if you had more than one - if you are in "add to the current selection" mode you can move the selection boundary that you are currently defining but this doesn't move any previously defined selection areas (would be unworkable if it did!). Copy/paste/move/anchor = ctrl-C, ctrl-V, drag/move the pasted selection/ctrl-h - not that complex when you get used to it(?)
Hmmmmm --- I don't follow that at all. But that's on me. You must be describing some more complicated process that I've just never encountered. Even if it allowed you to move one 'selection' without moving the content (while others are selected - somehow) - then what? This would imply that I could still somehow plant the content in the new location after moving it - but that doesn't sound like that is the case. I'm still wondering what this other process is if it is not ending up with stuff being moved. It sounds like we must use this Copy/Paste process every time to actually move something. Is Copy/Paste etc. complicated? No, but it is not intuitive with what a normal user would expect to happen when they select something and then try to move it with a "move selection" tool. Calculus is easy once you learn it too. Ha...
