image not unloading when loading new

ok, and this may be a completely new bug in itself, but i'll post it here because it's the same filter and a result of simply continuing to work on the filter and bug finding.

i decided to save this same filter as a new filter, not wanting to mess up the original. i saved this off and closed the editor and when the presets came back up they were all changed. in the original filter they had all been saved with images, mostly the lifesaver, but some of the later ones with preview images and the last was set with the weird double external image mentioned in the above post. when i close it up this time, all the presets had gone to simple colors, not images.

and, in the original filter, the presets still looked right, all being images, but when i clicked on any of them, they too all came up as simple colors, not the preset images. the presets did remain showing the images, but clicking resulted in colors only.

ok, restarting seems to have fixed the last problem mentioned... for now.

are you saying that even without an image component and with the color control component set to, let's say the 'garlic' preview image, that if you file--> open an external image that it will also show up in the results if the preview image is larger than the garlic one? and if so, that's just warped... and that's what's happening. i'm pretty sure that it used to be that a transparency was put behind the smaller image before.

try this on your copy: 1. load a filter with a color component set to images enabled.

2. make sure the filter you are using has NO "image" component within it.

3. file--> open any external image larger than the default preview images.

4. set your color component image to the lifesaver preview image at 600x600 the default.

your externally loaded image will show up behind the lifesaver. that shldnt be. i dont care if this is a bug or not. with only one actual component within the filter allowing images, the image loaded with that component shld be the ONLY image in the results. any default image shld just automatically be unloaded! otherwise, you wouldnt be able to have a blank, transparent background unload you loaded that as your default image, which is just odd in this case, at least to my way of thinking. but, give me a rationale and i'll shut up...maybe

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Kraellin wrote: your externally loaded image will show up behind the lifesaver.

My externally loaded image doesn't. It only defines the canvas size (despite the Image component is not present). Here's what I get:

i just made a completely new filter and it still works this way. so, it wasnt something that occurred to my previous filters.

also, i'm a little curious here. why would loading an external image through file--> open have any effect on anything, even the canvas size, if you have no image type component in the filter? i can understand it within the color component if you're loading an external using that, but why if there's no image component? i mean, this is assuming an awful lot about what i want or dont want in my filter. why not take that feature out and simply add a canvas resizing component or add the feature to the color component or something? it just seems like an added and unwarranted assumption in this particular case to include it when no image component is loaded.

lol. or am i missing something here? it wouldnt surprise me

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Kraellin wrote: have any effect on anything, even the canvas size, if you have no image type component in the filter? i

I agree this may look weird. Feel free to repost this in the Feature Wishlist forum where Vladimir can notice it.