On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Garry R. Osgood wrote:
> Tom Rathborne wrote:
>
> > I just noticed this new CVS entry:
> >
> > Fri Feb 4 18:27:16 CET 2000 Stanislav Brabec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * app/global_edit.c: edit_fill with foreground, not background.
>
> > <snipped...>
>
> Indeed, some of the 1.2 - revised books are well into pre-press
> and some are out in the market. These books suffer too.
>
> >From "Gimp - Essential Reference (Covers GIMP 1.2, GTK 1.2 and
> Script-Fu" by Alex Harford, published by New Riders (Page 32):
>
> "Clear and Fill are simple tools for working with selections
> and entire layers... <discussion of Clear omitted> ... The Fill
> ([Ctrl+.]) operation adds paint to the current selection. The selection
> is always the *background* color even if there are layers or an Alpha
> channel. <emphasis mine> Fill is therefore useless when working
> with a flat image without an Alpha channel because it has the same
> effect as Clear..."
Well, the publisher knew that they were rushing this when they released
the book already. I will note this on my errata page.
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