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So that there is no misunderstanding. Destructive in the meaning of 'the tool modifies the image data'.

Needs an undo step, a little bit destructive and risky to use this tool. I know the next one will ask for the length of the border, or the number of colors in the selection, or... I'm quite often do measuring the size of an area in an image (1:100 drawings). And I'm happy that pdn shows this value. I'm just missing the distance between two points. And it would be nice to use the same non-destructive tool like for the area. Area size is also a bit special. As I said, it would just be handy.

Guys, I know how to calculate it. To add the length to 'Rectangle Select' would be handy. Like the size of the area of the rectangle in the statusbar (which is easier to calculate, or? ;-)

In the moment 'Rectangle Select' shows in the statusbar - top/left - bounding size - Area size It would be nice to add the length of the diagonal if units are centimeters or inches. This would allow to measure easily the distance of two points in the image.

Could this be added in a future release? As you know, the DIB header has placeholders for DPM values. So why not set and use them when pasting i.e. as a new image.

If I'm copying a selected part of an image and paste it to an other application or to a new image in PDN then the DPI value is lost. Is there a reason for this behaviour? The new image in PDN defaults to 96 DPI and I can change the DPI setting via the resize dialog, but...

OK, I got ;-) But I guess you know that this was a bug report.

? You may also use the menu or what else but I guess this is the troubleshooting and not the support forum.

CTRL + '+' is not working on a german keyboard. There you have to press SHIFT + '1' to get the plus sign. Is there an other shortcut that works? This is a standard problem in applications, because you are not able to define this shortcut easily by an accelerator in the resource file. Even on the US keyboard you have to press CTRL+'=' and not CTRL+'+'. Would be nice if you could fix this. I would check SHIFT state just for letters because depending on the keyboard you need to press SHIFT to generate a character which may be used in combination with CTRL or ALT as a shortcut. In my own applications I'm adding CTRL+'>' and CTRL-'<' for Zoom In and Out because they are easy to reach on a german keyboad (one key near CTRL).

EER proposed to post this here for verification. I created a registry file (see attached zip) to add CW- and CCW-rotate for Paint.NET. From the reg file: ;============================================================================== ;This file adds Synaptics touchpad gestures for the application Paint.NET. ;Adding a new application requires a reboot to get recognized by the driver. ;Changing later a setting of this application does not need a reboot. ;On request 3 finger flip gestures may be added. ;Tested on HP TouchSmart tm2, Windows 7 (64bit) ;Use it on your own risk. Risk is small because only some new keys are added. ;============================================================================== PDN Synaptics Touchpad Gestures.zip

I created a .reg file to add Synaptics Touchpad Gestures for Paint.NET. In the moment just the two fingers rotate gesture. If the community is interested I may upload the file. What would be the best place? In the plugins forum? I may add three finger gestures (left, right, up, and down). Just to say this is just a hack by looking to existing keys in the registry. Synaptics does not answer to email and there is no documentation available or a tool which allows to add gestures for an application (as far as I know). But the reg file just adds aditional keys and does not overwrite others, so the risk of usage is limited.

Thanks, I had no idea that I have to enter the full editor mode to do this.

Here an other small issue. Maybe someone could rename the thread title to something like "Floater issues" :-) If a modal dialog is open in Paint.NET and you are clicking on a floater window then you hear just the system beep. It would be nice if the behavior would be the same as clicking the main window title. Means: If the application is in background, bring it to foreground and do not beep. (In the moment it stays in background). If the application is in foreground flash the modal dialog and beep. This can be implemented easily by catching WM_SETCURSOR message and checking for HTERROR. Remark: Just that there is no misunderstanding. I really like the GUI of Paint.NET.

- click on the 'Tools' panel titel - type the shortcut 'S' multiple times. The selection of the selection tools should jump from one to the next. - click somewhere in the image area. - type the shortcut 'S' multiple times. The selection of the selection tools toggles. Because the user has no visual cue if a panel window or the main window is active, it maybe confusing that the shortcuts are not working sometimes. The panel should route WM_KEYDOWNs to the main window. This has to do with the active state of the windows. I.e. if you click a panel then you can open the system menu of this panel by pressing ALT and then cursor down. I'm guessing that paint.NET manipulates the WM_NCACTIVATE messages to get the effect that the main window and all panels show the active look at the same time. This is also the reason for the problem I mentioned in the first message of this thread.

If you activate the 'Tools' panel by clicking the caption then the tools shortcuts are not recognized. W7.64. pdn 3.5.6

If you open a dialog in paint.net then the border elements of the main window and the panels will not be deactivated. I expect this has to do with some code which keeps all panels in active state. It is not a big deal but a little bit against the standard user experience, or?