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The Buffers dialog
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Le dialogue des tampons
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Buffers are temporary repositories for image data, created when
you cut or copy part of a drawable (a layer, layer mask, etc.).
When you use
<span class="guimenu">Edit</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Copy</span>
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<span class="guimenu">Edit</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Cut</span>,
the data goes into the Global Buffer. When you use
<span class="guimenu">Edit</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Buffer</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Copy Named</span>
or
<span class="guimenu">Edit</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Buffer</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Cut Named</span>,
a dialog pops up asking you to name a buffer to store the data
in. There is no hard limit on the number of named buffers you
can create, although, of course, each one consumes a share of
memory.
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The Buffers dialog shows you the contents of all existing named
buffers, and allows you to operate on them in several ways. It
also shows you, at the top, the contents of the Global Buffer, but
this is merely a display: you can't do anything with it.
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The Buffers dialog is a dockable dialog; see the section on <a href="ch02s03s04.html" title="3.4. Dialogs and Docking">Dialogs and Docking</a> for help on
manipulating it. It can be activated in several ways:
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From the Toolbox menu:
<span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guimenuitem"><span class="accel">B</span>uffer</span>.
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From an image menu:
<span class="guimenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guimenuitem"><span class="accel">B</span>uffer</span>.
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From the Tab menu in any dockable dialog:
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Named buffers are not saved across sessions. The only way to save
their contents is to paste them into images.
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The Buffers dialog (Grid View)
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In the Tab menu for the Buffers dialog, you can choose between
<span class="guimenuitem">View as Grid</span> and <span class="guimenuitem">View as
List</span>. In Grid mode, the buffers are laid out in a
rectangular array. In List mode, they are lined up vertically,
with each row showing a preview of the contents of the buffer,
its name, and its pixel dimensions.
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The Buffers Menu
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Clicking on a buffer in the display area makes it the active
buffer, i. e., the one that will be used for paste commands
executed with the Buffers Menu or the buttons at the bottom of
the dialog. Double-clicking on a buffer causes its contents to
be pasted to the active image; this is a quick way of executing
the "Paste Buffer" command.
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At the bottom of the dialog are four buttons. The operations
they perform can also be accessed from the Buffers Menu, and
from the
<span class="guimenu">Edit</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Buffer</span>
submenu in the image menu.
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<p><b>Paste Buffer. </b>
This command pastes the contents of the selected buffer into
the active image, as a floating selection. The only difference
between this and the ordinary <a href="ch05s03s07.html" title="3.7. Paste">Paste</a> command is that it uses
the selected buffer rather than the global clipboard buffer.
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This command pastes the contents of the selected buffer into
the active image's selection, as a floating selection. The
only difference between this and the ordinary <a href="ch05s03s08.html" title="3.8. Paste Into">Paste Into</a> command is
that it uses the selected buffer rather than the global
clipboard buffer.
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This command creates a new single-layer image out of the
contents of the selected buffer. The only difference between
this and the ordinary <a href="ch05s03s09.html" title="3.9. Paste as New">Paste as New</a> command is
that it uses the selected buffer rather than the global
clipboard buffer.
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This command deletes the selected named buffer, no questions
asked. You cannot delete the Global Buffer.
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