Restoring selection after undo

Ideas for improvements and requests for new features in XnView Classic

Moderators: helmut, XnTriq, xnview

Post Reply
User avatar
zencd
Posts: 29
Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:06 pm
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Restoring selection after undo

Post by zencd »

When I crop a picture with Ctrl+Y, I often want to undo the operation. Okay, after undo my pic goes back, but the selection is lost and I should select it again (although I gonna shift selection with just several pixels).

I'd prefer to have the selection resurrected too.
User avatar
xnview
Author of XnView
Posts: 46236
Joined: Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:31 am
Location: France
Contact:

Re: Saving selection after undo

Post by xnview »

zencd wrote:When I crop a picture with Ctrl+Y, I often want to undo the operation. Okay, after undo my pic goes back, but the selection is lost and I should select it again (although I gonna shift selection with just several pixels).
I'd prefer to have the selection resurrected too.
Yes, in some case but not always...
Pierre.
User avatar
zencd
Posts: 29
Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:06 pm
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Post by zencd »

ok

I personally need this feature when cropping images only. This is an action I do very often.
User avatar
helmut
Posts: 8704
Joined: Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:47 pm
Location: Frankfurt, Germany

Re: Saving selection after undo

Post by helmut »

I'd like to raise this issue, again. The multi-level undo is really need and useful. Though, selection should really become part of the undo process and should be restored when undoing an operation.

With restoration of the selection after undo, the workflow of image processing would be much smoother:

1. Select area
2. Apply action (e.g. Cut area, apply red eye correction, ...)
3. Undo action (because result is not as desired)
--> Action (e.g. Cutting) is undone, previously selected area is selected, again.
4. Adjust selection and/or apply different action

This sounds like a minor issue, but usability would be increase a lot.
Post Reply