On 04.01.2014 13:44, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
Hi!
> To make it clear, the problem with that module is that is a pain in the
> ads, as as some of you have suffered, when you try to read it's code you
> run away humiliated of your inability to understand a piece of it. So
> only few people can understand major parts of it.
>
> Having said that, I also have seen that before, but I I can reproduce it
> either. I also think that the same is happening to other modules
> sometimes, although in those it is not so obvious.
I have the feeling (aka "not good enough for a report to point to an
error") that this focus loss is sort of a general issue.
As I said I can't really nail it, cause as soon as I say "ha! now I have
you" it works on the next try. Usually, just to fail again two images
later in similar, but not the same, circumstances... :S
A general feeling(!) of mine is, that things get mixed up if "the image"
needs the focus for the module to work. E.g. to place a frame or a point
there. At least this is something common between crop, colour picker and
the colour picker incarnations in the curves dialogue. Additionally,
this is not necessary in (most) other modules like exposure, levels,
shadows/highlights etc. where I didn't see this (miss-)behaviour of
crop/picker yet.
Anyway, it is really a sad thing that I can't say "take an image, do a,
b, c in sequence then crop and it fails". How should one fix this if one
can't reproduce it. (Even if someone knowledgeable looks at the code...)
BTW: in older versions of DT I usually never got croping handles by
activating the module. The usual fix to get them was to enable some sort
of grid in the crop module. For a while I thought that this is sort of a
design issue. In more recent versions, however, this got better and
usually I get the handles right way. But still not always.
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