Screenshot editing

[Ben Boulanger]

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 21:37, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
>   Uhhhh... all that does is select a region.  Which, I suppose, does
> technically give me a square on the screen, but it goes away when I select
> something else.  :)  Am I missing something here?  Okay, obviously, I *am*
> missing something.  Anyone know what?

And after you've selected, as Kevin said, right click, go to
edit->stroke and it will create trace the selected region with whatever
brush you're using.  

>   For example, it would be nice if I knew what version of GIMP you had.
1.2

>   Even better, if you select the "Tool Options" dialog from the "Dialogs"  
> menu, you should get a dialog (surprise) that tells you the name of the tool
> you're using.  What is it?  :-)
Rectangular Selection


Ben