Lssoo Tool too sensitive/ closes far too quickly

[RabSmith]

Hello

I do hope someone can help me with this problem that is really frustrating:

GIMP works great in most instances and I have been using it for a few years without any real glitches.

However this past few weeks, the LASSOO TOOL has been plagued with glitches: straight lines are usually fine, but anything using a curve usually sees the lassoo tool closing far too quickly, making undesired shapes I have to close and 'fix' later,

Up until very recently, the lassoo tool worked like a charm, even with rapid use.

I done a clean reinstall of WINDOWS last week [nothing to do with this problem] and the oversensitive closing/ bad lassoo drag is still there .

So I dont think its my computer which seems to work fine otherwise.

I also reinstalled GIMP 2.8 and even went back to 2'6 to see if that worked better, but alas it is still the same.

Is there a recent setting or something I can adjust, or any other steps I can take to get the lassoo tool working well like it used to? I can still work, but I am slowed down a lot compaed to what used to be standard work practise.Will check for responses later.

Attached is the sort of images I create with the help of GIMP:

Kind Regards, Rob
This post has been edited by Rab Smith: Today, 10:50 AM

[rich2005]

Reinstalling Gimp rarely does any good. However since the problem also occurs with Gimp 2.6 have you considered it might be a hardware issue, ie. the mouse.

[Ofnuts]

(02-22-2017, 11:43 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Reinstalling Gimp rarely does any good. However since the problem also occurs with Gimp 2.6 have you considered it might be a hardware issue, ie. the mouse.

Or the mouse battery, if wireless...

To close the lasso, you have to double click. If you have a marginal mouse button, it can open/close/open/close while you hold it, making it look like you double clicked. No spurious double-clicking problems anywhere on the PC?

[RabSmith]

Hiya guys:


thank you for your responses.

Sometimes the lassoo tool works fine----I am pretty experienced with it and I know intuitively when the lassoo tool is working fine.

 Today the lassoo tool has been working on and off OK.


Yes, sometimes I have problems with the mouse on other sites, and considering my well-worn mouse is now ten years old, this could well be the problem.

Looks like I need a new mouse!

Hope it is the mouse----I will report back anyway on here in a few days. 



I will try a new one this weekend---they are cheap to buy anyway.


Thanks again, Rob

[RabSmith]

Hiya Admins!


You most certainlly prodded me into the right direction:


------I discovered that the computer plug-in end [USB connection] was far too tangled up with other wires and I straightened everything out and re-plugged the mouse cable back in.


Within a few minutes, the lassoo tool on GIMP was back to a recognizable working state and so far [fingers crossed] things are happily working as they should be,



This approach was something that simply never occurred to me, and I much appreciate you good folks pointing out it was likely mouse-related problems and not GIMP itself/

Now back to working efficiently---I hope----once again!


Kind regards, Rob

[Ofnuts]

We have an advantage over you... we know how reliable Gimp is, so when we have problems, Gimp isn't our primary suspect...

[RabSmith]

It was well worth me starting up this thread, Ofnuts, or chances are I would still be struggling with a malfunctioning lassoo tool.



Great side which I will return to in future.

Thank you  and Rich  once again,


Rob.