It seems that the transformation Cancel and X buttons confirm the changes instead of closing the transformation dialog without doing anything else.
1. start a transformation do something and click OK
2. double-click the output to reopen the transformation dialog and edit changes
3. click Cancel or the X button -> the changes are confirmed and carried out
In transformations with its own preview window like Bilateral Sharpen or Gausian Blur the Cancel and X buttons work differently. They simply cancel the transformation already made and the output reverts to the pre-transformation shape. To get the transformation effect back you have to reopen the transformation dialog and click OK again.
Cancel buttons do not cancel?
Moderator: jsachs
Re: Cancel buttons do not cancel?
What Cancel does, if you opened the transformation dialog by double clicking, is to simply leave the output image the way it is. For transformations with their own preview, the output image is unchanged until you click OK to compute the transformation on the entire image. This is a little different from what happens when you click OK, in which case any pending settings changes are applied and the settings are saved in case you want to re-apply them the next time you open the transformation. I agree this is not the best way to handle Cancel.
Probably the most intuitive thing I could do is to re-load the previous settings and recalculate the output image if you Cancel after double-clicking and if the settings have changed since then.
Probably the most intuitive thing I could do is to re-load the previous settings and recalculate the output image if you Cancel after double-clicking and if the settings have changed since then.
Jonathan Sachs
Digital Light & Color
Digital Light & Color
Re: Cancel buttons do not cancel?
Please, correct me if I am mistaken, but this is the current situation with Alpha 6-June:
After you just reload a common transformation dialog (Color Balance, Curves..) by double clicking an output, you can Reload Last (previous) Settings only if you previously closed the transformation dialog by Cancel or the X buttons. Once you closed the dialog by OK button, the previous settings will not reload. (By this I do not mean the situation when you reload the dialog, make changes to settings and with the dialog still open go to Reload Last Settings.... they load correctly.)
However, if you then, or instead, run the same transformation on another image, you can Reload Last Settings without any problem.
It looks as if the last settings are ignored if the transformation dialog is reloaded on the same output by double clicking. Is it intended?
What it means is that if you find, after you click OK, that the additional adjustment was for worse, there is no way to get the previous setting back unless you saved it in a file.
I think that to reload the previous setting when Cancel or X buttons are used is a good idea. After all, in the world of computers everybody is used to click Cancel or X buttons if they get lost or spoil something.
After you just reload a common transformation dialog (Color Balance, Curves..) by double clicking an output, you can Reload Last (previous) Settings only if you previously closed the transformation dialog by Cancel or the X buttons. Once you closed the dialog by OK button, the previous settings will not reload. (By this I do not mean the situation when you reload the dialog, make changes to settings and with the dialog still open go to Reload Last Settings.... they load correctly.)
However, if you then, or instead, run the same transformation on another image, you can Reload Last Settings without any problem.
It looks as if the last settings are ignored if the transformation dialog is reloaded on the same output by double clicking. Is it intended?
What it means is that if you find, after you click OK, that the additional adjustment was for worse, there is no way to get the previous setting back unless you saved it in a file.
I think that to reload the previous setting when Cancel or X buttons are used is a good idea. After all, in the world of computers everybody is used to click Cancel or X buttons if they get lost or spoil something.