Drag rectangle like Picture Publisher

[mbutscher]

When making a rectangular area for cropping or for a rectangular mask, Picture Publisher 8 has a neat feature:

Making a rectangle normally means (as in XnView) that one corner is dragged around while the diagonally opposite corner is fixed.

In Picture Publisher you can press the right mouse button (in addition to the left one) and now you can move the whole rectangle instead of resizing it.

I think this is very practical as the start point of dragging (where the fixed corner is placed) is nearly never exactly at the desired place.


Michael

[Clo]

mbutscher

Hello ! Welcome aboard !

• You can get the same result, just release the left button when the selection is done,
put the cursor inside the selected area, it turns into a 4-arrow cross :

    

then you can move the selection holding the left button…

VG
Claude
Clo

[mbutscher]

You can get the same result, just release the left button when the selection is done, put the cursor inside the selected area,
it turns into a 4-arrow cross :

    

then you can move the selection holding the left button…

Thank you, but this feels not so comfortable as the PP-method.

Normally I have to first drag the rectangle to enlarge it to about the desired size and position, then move the rectangle to position the upper left corner correctly, then resize rectangle again to move lower right corner correctly. Doing this in PP by hitting and releasing right mouse button is much faster.


Michael

[Peter2]

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• You can get the same result, just release the left button when the selection is done, put the cursor inside the selected area,
it turns into a 4-arrow cross :...

But only if your configuration for left mouse button is configured in this way.

Peter