Re: [Gimp-user] Any automatic way to use the Measure Tool for angles of 0 and 90 degrees?

A GIMP user <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2021-10-03 07:29, Ofnuts via gimp-user-list wrote:
> You can depress the Control key while moving the mouse for the second
> point, this constrains the measure angle to multiples of 15°.

Great! Thanks!

I thought that there ought to be something that would make it easier to 
measure at exact right angles.

On 03/10/2021 11:39, A GIMP user wrote:
>> When I use the Measure Tool I often want to measure a distance that's
>> either vertically eight above, right below or on the same horizontal
>> level as the starting point.
>>
>> Sometimes wiggling the mouse back and forth takes quite a while before
>> the line that's measuring the distance is at 0° or 90°. I'm wondering
>> if there's any way to have the Measure Tool just automatically set the
>> measurement at one of those angles from the starting point?  I'm using
>> GIMP 2.8.22.

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