With IrfanView one can make a rectangular selection 'inside' an image in several ways.
1) It can be done in freestyle manually by clicking left mouse at one corner and dragging the mouse to the opposite corner.
2) It can be done with the Shift+C command, 'Create Custom selection' by editing size-values and offsets.
Both methods produce six specific coord values, the four corners of the area, and the possible 2 x-y offsets.
Both methods can have their advantage, according to the goal of the desired action.
The re-use of these two sets is in IV quite fuzzy. Sometimes values are still available, sometimes not.
This selection setting is active in several dialogs :
'Create custom selection' - 'Add overlay text' - some advanced settings in the Batch dialog, like 'Crop' and 'Add text'.
I will exclude command-line options here for the moment.
My issue is, that there is little consistency between the dialogs. Sometimes existing values are transferred, sometimes not.
Some selection settings are saved in the INI file on-the-fly, others not.
So I think some more elegancy can be achieved here.
I don't want to simplify things by merging 1) and 2) together. Both sets should be available as unique methods of
selection, but a communication between the two sets could help a lot.
So my first suggestion : Transfer Manual selection values to Custum selection. And one for vice versa.
1) It can be done in freestyle manually by clicking left mouse at one corner and dragging the mouse to the opposite corner.
2) It can be done with the Shift+C command, 'Create Custom selection' by editing size-values and offsets.
Both methods produce six specific coord values, the four corners of the area, and the possible 2 x-y offsets.
Both methods can have their advantage, according to the goal of the desired action.
The re-use of these two sets is in IV quite fuzzy. Sometimes values are still available, sometimes not.
This selection setting is active in several dialogs :
'Create custom selection' - 'Add overlay text' - some advanced settings in the Batch dialog, like 'Crop' and 'Add text'.
I will exclude command-line options here for the moment.
My issue is, that there is little consistency between the dialogs. Sometimes existing values are transferred, sometimes not.
Some selection settings are saved in the INI file on-the-fly, others not.
So I think some more elegancy can be achieved here.
I don't want to simplify things by merging 1) and 2) together. Both sets should be available as unique methods of
selection, but a communication between the two sets could help a lot.
So my first suggestion : Transfer Manual selection values to Custum selection. And one for vice versa.
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