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Posted by Maurizio Paglia on 2023-12-10.
Last recompilation of Ansel (test+185~g55d8a7ad8) seems to have a strange behaviour in Crop module.
Module does not work at all: if I select - for example - SQUARE the module does nothing.
If I click Apply button the square is applied but histogram (top right) and the reference image (top left) disappear.
Than I cannot drag the square selection. I can only modify margins and position sliders but central image is rendered with strange fuzzy colors…
Other modules seems to work right…
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migmoq — 2023-12-10
Yes. Aurelien fixed some important bugs with the cache and with the pipeline computation on changes that invalidated some expectations made by this module. He works currently on this module to fix that.
Maurizio Paglia — 2023-12-11
OK, thanks!