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- This dialog offers you, in a same window, in real time, the position of
- the mouse pointer, and the channel values of the pointed pixel, in the
- chosen color model.
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- From the toolbox-menu and the image Menu bar:
- <span class="guimenu">File</span> ‚Üí <span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span> ‚Üí <span class="guimenuitem">Pointer</span>
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- From the image Menu-bar:
- <span class="guimenu">Dialogs</span> ‚Üí <span class="guimenuitem">Pointer</span>
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- <span class="guilabel">Pixels</span>: shows the position of the pointed
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- pixels from the origin (the upper left corner of canvas).
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- <span class="guilabel">Units</span>: Shows the distance from the origin, in
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- <span class="guilabel">Left drop-down list</span>: defaults to
- “<span class="quote">Pixel</span>” and shows the RGB channel values. You can
- choose another color model.
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- <span class="guilabel">Right drop-down list</span>: defaults to RGB and
- shows percentage values. You can choose another color model.
- “<span class="quote">Hex</span>” is the
- <a class="link" href="glossary.html#glossary-html-notation" title="HTML notation">HTML Notation</a> of
- the pixel color, in hexadecimal.
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- <span class="guilabel">Sample Merged</span>: this option, checked by
- default, if enabled shows pixel values for all visible layers as
- they were merged together. If it's not checked, only values of the
- active layer will be shown.
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