[sane-devel] Another merge request suggested for xSane: 'move selection' and 'move screen' drag modes

Tue Jun 9 00:59:52 BST 2020

Just an artist comment: following after Gimp is good, since most of
the time we're scanning into Gimp.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:42 PM Jörn-Ingo Weigert <jiweigert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Maxim for your time to develop this! I'm happy to see after long time that someone are starting to modernize XSane.
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> For me, this behaviour change in Zoom/ Selection handling is really needed, that you were lead by GIMP's handling, even better. :)
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> Kind regards.
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> Ingo Weigert
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> Maxim Ushakov <head at maxamuxa.com> schrieb am Di., 9. Juni 2020, 00:58:
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>> Hi all, hi Ralph!
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>> There is an other suggested pack of changes for xSane and its Preview window:
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>> Add 'Create selection for full-frame of 135 format film' button.
>> Remove 'Undo Zoom' button, it is useless.
>> Redesign 'Drag modes':
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>> Left button outside the selection: create a new selection.
>> Left button on a border of selection: modify this selection.
>> Left button inside the selection: move the selection.
>> Middle button anywhere in the screen: move the screen (for Zoomed mode only).
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>> It is designated for simplifying the process of scanning camera rolls and slides.The user can Zoom In as they like to, create a selection box with an exact size of frame (135 format, full size or half size), then move this box across the frames, scan frames, move the screen, etc.
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>> Patterns for mouse buttons are similar to Gimp. There is no general patterns amid image editors and CAD systems, so Gimp is an option.
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>> The code of xsane-preview.h/cpp was rewritten and simplified first to make new patterns and modes with their cursors easy to add.
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>> The cloned repo: https://gitlab.com/umaxik/xsane
>> Merge request: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontend/xsane/-/merge_requests/11
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>> Best regards,
>> Max

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