In DT 4.2.1 I have drawn a precise path #1, and the plan is to reuse it in different modules, where it will be slightly modified to facilitate the nature of the module. Therefore I want to give each ‘path #1’ under the module groups - its own name reflecting the specific purpose.
According to the on-line manual (and videos on the internet) it should be possible in the Mask manager to rename any mask under each group name - by double clicking on the current name - and enter the new name.
But nothing happens when I double (left) click on ‘path #1’ - Not a single of the incidents under the current four groups allows renaming.
I can easily rename the group name, but that’s not what I want.
Actually this is not the whole story. The first time I tried to rename this mask (path #1) under a group, a diffuse input field was opened with the mask’s name on top of itself, slightly offset.
It’s hard to see what is entered with all those letters. But having keyed in the new name and clicked outside the field, DT crashed. I can read, that this has been an issue earlier, and the bug is considered fixed. After restart that problem didn’t reappear - the problem was now as described above - no entry field opens for renaming the mask (under a group name).
What operating system are you on? If Linux, what distro and version, what desktop?
Ubuntu 22.10, KDE, darktable master (development version, not 4.2.1):
As far as I can see from your screen copy, kofa, you have double clicked the line with the ‘on-off’ symbol.
I can do that too, an that changes the mask name in general, i.e. same new name under each group, and the problem remains - they are all still identical.
Only if you try to rename the isolated ‘circle #1’ in the line right over the bottom line, the name will be changed for that group - ‘color balance rgb’ - only - and that’s what I want.
I don’t think you can do this…you can rename it but I think that carries through to all modules …sound like you are hoping to copy it and modify it slightly and rename it?? Maybe you can but I think the element is a fixed entity once you create it…changing it anywhere will change it everywhere…
You can duplicate it and rename that… perhaps you can work with that…
So I think what you want you would do like this… Here as an example I added 3 drawn elements to exposure…this creates a group and the individual mask list… In that list I right clicked on the path and duplicated it several times… Now you can rename these and modify them slightly based on the original and then use them in any module group you create or use… Does that give you what you need…
We may be going a bit in circles but sure you can name that one mask whatever you want… then if you reuse it and rename it and modify it , it will not be a new instance…it will change all the instance in all the modules to that name and that defined range… at least that is what I understand to happen… you made it sound like you want to re use a path with incremental changes and have a new name associated to indicate what it is doing… i think then you need to be working on copies for this to work… but I am as always glad to be wrong…
NP I.m heading out… you can run it in parallel or really I have no issues with versions only a few days old at home on my PC…
For me if you have 50 mask elements in your edit they will be in the list at the bottom. Here you rename them. Then you can combine those building blocks there or as a result of your selections in the modules while your are editing… The groups only show you what elements are used in a certain module and how they are specified to combine… THe list of individual masks is found below the groups… So I think if this duplicate is a recent feature and you upgrade then you are all set…
Here, the masks under group ‘color balance rgb’ and group ‘local contrast’ have the same name, because they are the same mask (there is only one mask, applied to several modules). If I resize, move, or otherwise adjust one of them, ‘all of them’ will be adjusted, because they are all the same instance, not copies of an instance.
Here I add a mask to exposure, then add it to local contrast as well; see what happens when I move the mask in local contast: the area affected by the exposure adjustment will follow – because exposure and local contrast use the same shape.
I have the understanding that a mask with the same name, e.g. ‘m’ ,will act globally as long as it is not renamed. So, if changes are made to that shape in one module, they will affect all other modules where the shape ‘m’ is included.
That’s why I want to rename the original shape (a detailed path, in this case) with a unique name for each module in which it thereafter will be changed in different ways. I think I in this way avoid such changes to echo back to the modules where the original shape has been used as a starting point.
